I really enjoy people... singular, usually.
In general people in groups annoy me.
I work with a fascinating group of humans. Individually I find them all interesting and likable.
In a group they become repetitive, negative, complaining, and generally worth avoiding.
I love chatting with coworkers at the coffee pot, dislike sitting down to eat lunch with them.
This was a pretty good flick though. I hope it gets a sequal.
fishmanlee said:
Star Wars Kinect has some pretty good music: http://soundcloud.com/zachcw3pr
This is actually pretty good. Can I buy this album?
This is some kind of joke right?
I hate movies where the TITLE gives it away. OBVIOUSLY Luke is gonna save the day. It's not called "A NEW FAILURE."
Stupid Lucas, was stupid.
EMPEROR ZURG vs. DARTH VADER!
ARE BELONG TO US!
FanFiltration said:
Did anyone grab a copy of that script before it was removed?
Apparently Ridley Scott didn't either.
HA!
I had a dream last night where I was hired to redub over all of the dialogue in Prometheus, live as it was on screen.
Actually got me thinking that it might be a fun fan-edit project to do. Sort of like that Woody Allen movie. Redo the sound from the ground up, totally new plot. Might even improve it
ray_afraid said:
I'm afraid it's gonna be all Tron Legacy. Actually, I'll be very surprised if it's not. Lucasfilm owns the rights to the characters likenesses and now Disney owns Lucasfilm... just seems inevitable that they will go that route..
I don't see it happening. Tron:Legacy wasn't such a earth shattering hit, and Harrison Ford and Mark and Carrie are much more beloved in those roles than Jeff Bridges was as Tron Guy.
No way is there enough footage of him to do anything bigger than a gag trailer.
Bingowings said:
The solar system has thousands of years (probably millions of years) worth of mineral ores in it.
Even if you went wild with technology.
As I say in the time frame now given to us depletion makes no sense.
Maybe there was some accident mining asteroids or draining gas giants but regulation as a means to prevent corporate wars isn't 'random' it has historical precedent (East India Company anyone?).
I believe their looking for oil, specifically for manufacturing plastics, as in the future they use Mr Fusion or something. IIRC thats in the novelisation.
oh yeah, and Prometheus sucked royally.
TV's Frink said:
Thanks!
Since you probably have been avoiding the AOTR thread, it's nearing completion. In fact, I'll be watching v2 of the workprint tomorrow.
Thanks for the tip. But I'll mainly avoid it because you're on it so much, and frankly I find you distasteful.
1990osu said:
Look, it's quite simple:
The north had slave states. There were riots in New York where northerners killed black people. The only reason the north didn't have as big a slave industry was because of the weather. The northerners would have rebelled if they thought that they were all dying to free the slaves. No, they were fighting to "preserve the union". And likewise, southerners were not fighting to keep their slaves. As mentioned, the vast majority of them did not own slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a great publicity stunt by Lincoln to try to make the war about slavery. Why? Because he didn't want Europe to jump in on the southern side, which it was about to do.
But what did the Emancipation Proclamation actually do? Nothing! If Lincoln had really wanted to free slaves why didn't he free the Northern slaves? Why "free" the southern ones he had no control over?
It was a great publicity stunt by Lincoln, and ever after it has made a good simplistic "white knight black knight" tale for the history books and public schools- but it just isn't correct.
The war was not about slavery, but about economics...as most wars are.
Yes it is simple. Wrong.
No. Sorry. Read the texts written by the people fighting the war.
Pretty much everything you said is wrong.
The war WAS EXPRESSLY AND CLEARLY ABOUT SLAVERY AS WRITTEN IN THE DECLARATION OF SECESSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES, AS WELL AS THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION. Did Lincoln write those?
Feel free to quote Lincoln in the one quote he ever made where he's ambiguous on freeing the slaves (which was a letter to a newspaper in a state he was desperately trying to keep on his side). It's one of his most quoted lines by revisionists. The thousands upon thousands of words he wrote or said strongly against slavery is ok to ignore.
Bingowings said:
A good director will knock the unsightly from a bad script and add what is missing and fight to keep what works.
A bad director will mangle a reasonable script.
Think Ridley Scott on Alien and Ridley Scott on Prometheus.
Not saying a director is UNimportant, but a good producer and competent director couple put out a great Star Wars.
And what the HELL was reasonable about "Prometheus?" :( The two headed clone of Hitchcock and Fellini couldn't have made that script any good.
Bingowings said:
Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the 1850 compromise as much about land rights as slave legislation?
A couple things, like Texas's western edge, and the Mormons not getting a big state (help me out Ender... was it The State of Desierta), were in it, but the vast majority of the decisions were based on keeping the Slave/Free state thing from exploding for another decade.
Honestly, I think writer and especially producer are going to be more important than the director job.
It's not like the director is going to get to go all auteur on us. What's important is the guy making the big decisions: script, casting, special effects, shooting shedule (imagine if ROTJ had 4 more weeks), cinematographer.
CP3S said:
Warbler said:
I realize it is just a conspiracy theory, but maybe slavery had something to do with it? And please remember the south did its fair share of killing those on the government side.
You're right, it was all about slavery. That is why people in the north didn't have any slaves at that time. Makes total sense!
*sigh*
Come on Warb, it is well documented historical fact.
You can pretend America is this fantastic place with the unfortunate exception of these backward southern assholes who used to own slaves and are still crazy racists who would invoke all sorts of racist law and gunship runs of the Mexican border if they had their way all you want, but the fact remains that slavery was nation wide and the Civil War was about maintaining the union. They weren't fighting to the death and risking their lives for their right to own slaves. Plenty of those fighting and dying on the southern side in the Civil War didn't even own slaves. There were even a decent number of former slaves fighting on the southern side. They're were plenty fighting on the northern side who were slave owners. The south was fighting for their freedom to rule themselves; and the north was fighting to maintain the Union.
The Civil War was about slavery. The South wanted out of the union to protect slavery. The wanted freedom to let themselves have slaves.
Actual Documented historical facts:
Mississippi's Declaration of Sessession: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, the greatest material interest of the world . . . [A] blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization . . . There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union …”
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union: We assert that fourteen of the States have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own Statutes for the proof.” ... an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery. ... In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed ...”
This argues against state rights and for Federal power, claiming that Northern states were ignoring the federal rights of slave owners as identified by Constitution. , specifically the Fugitive Slave Act.
The first thing the Confederate Constitution did was FEDERALLY protect slavery. States in the Confederacy had NO RIGHTS to limit slavery.
The only 'rights' they cared about was the right to own slaves. Other 'causes' of the war were invented by post-war apologists.
Read the original documents.
I don't care if it's an unpopular opinion. I think the Renaisance was over-rated.
TV's Frink said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihd7ofrwQX0
I'm in love.
Exactly what I'd expect from a continent peopled with so many criminals.
Well, to play Han Solo, you need to be able to rock a vest.
Frink,
I never contributed much to these threads, not wanting to ruin the jokes for myself. Watched it today... I pissed myself laughing.
The dramatic build to the Gungans/Battledroid fight worked so well I forgot to wait for the gag. The Benny Hill theme made me do a spit take.
Excellent ridiculous work old man.
Bingowings said:
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You missed one.
1990osu said:
But yes, Texas actually has as a condition of the deal that they could secede at any time.
So in theory, if Texas was to secede, the federal government should let that happen . In theory.
I say let them go. In 20 years maybe the Mexican majority there will want to rejoin the Union.
In a world record for most unneeded link of all time, the google doodle today is for BRAM STOKER'S BIRTHDAY!
Surprisingly book accurate, and IIRC that's the font from the first edition.