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"somebody" <x### [at] y com> wrote:
> Sure. We can stop worring over highly improbable doomsday sceanarios, for
> starters.
But they're usually accompanied on TV by some neat-o computer graphics. Give me
more! (That's the only reason I watch that stuff--the 'doomsday scenarios' are
just filler; the CG is cool!!)
It's become clear to me that there really *is* no protection from/answer to
possible 'cataclysmic events.' The only practical thing to do is bend over and
kiss our arses goodbye. ;-P Heck, if BP can't even stop a little bitty oil leak
under the ocean, we're in a sad state! The only solution to it all is..."Don't
worry, be happy!"
Ken
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>> Sure. We can stop worring over highly improbable doomsday sceanarios, for
>> starters.
>
> But they're usually accompanied on TV by some neat-o computer graphics. Give me
> more! (That's the only reason I watch that stuff--the 'doomsday scenarios' are
> just filler; the CG is cool!!)
IME, the CG is *terrible*. Like, "we filmed some smoke and then crudely
genlocked it over the sky behind that mountain".
> It's become clear to me that there really *is* no protection from/answer to
> possible 'cataclysmic events.'
We're overdue an ice age. It's been an unusually long time since any
nearby stars went supernova and irradiated the planet with deadly rays.
One day the Yellowstone supervolcano will explode again. Pathogens will
inevitably become resistent to every known biocide and kill us all. The
list goes on...
> The only solution to it all is..."Don't worry, be happy!"
To quote THHGTTG, "Don't panic!"
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> IME, the CG is *terrible*. Like, "we filmed some smoke and then crudely
> genlocked it over the sky behind that mountain".
>
AND they usually repeat the same scene 27 times--by which time, all the flaws
become oh-so-apparent, and I feel like even *I* could do it better.
Ken
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>> IME, the CG is *terrible*. Like, "we filmed some smoke and then crudely
>> genlocked it over the sky behind that mountain".
>
> AND they usually repeat the same scene 27 times--by which time, all the flaws
> become oh-so-apparent, and I feel like even *I* could do it better.
Always makes me giggle when they repeat the same scene *in mirror image*
to try to make it look like a different scene. :-P
Oh, wait - Star Wars Episode I did this too... o_O
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Invisible wrote:
> Always makes me giggle when they repeat the same scene *in mirror image*
> to try to make it look like a different scene. :-P
>
> Oh, wait - Star Wars Episode I did this too... o_O
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/goofs
1. Oh my God, somebody actually catalogued all these?? (Seriously, you
noticed that the fan blades spin the wrong way? HOW??)
2. They found all these errors, yet apparently nobody noticed the same
scene appears identically in mirror image?
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/trivia?tr0795044
:-D
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Invisible wrote:
> 1. Oh my God, somebody actually catalogued all these??
I saw one where someone even went to the extent of pointing out that the
reflections in the side-view mirror didn't match what you could see behind
the car when you looked in the windshield. And that the license plate was
the wrong color because the movie was shot in 1965 about events in 1963 and
Spain had changed the color of their tags in 1964, or some such.
Some people have way too much time.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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Kenneth wrote:
> It's become clear to me that there really *is* no protection from/answer to
> possible 'cataclysmic events.'
If there was, it wouldn't be a cataclysmic event.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> 1. Oh my God, somebody actually catalogued all these??
>
> I saw one where someone even went to the extent of pointing out that the
> reflections in the side-view mirror didn't match what you could see
> behind the car when you looked in the windshield. And that the license
> plate was the wrong color because the movie was shot in 1965 about
> events in 1963 and Spain had changed the color of their tags in 1964, or
> some such.
>
> Some people have way too much time.
And I thought it was bad that somebody noticed that in LotR: tTT, in one
shot a flower had 7 petals but in the next shot it had only 5.
Can you imagine sitting watching a film with somebody like that? It
would be like listening to fine music with a Quantity Surveyer...
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>> It's become clear to me that there really *is* no protection
>> from/answer to possible 'cataclysmic events.'
>
> If there was, it wouldn't be a cataclysmic event.
Tautology cat... is a cat.
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