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LordOskuro wrote:As an aside, I don't get why the floating balls are called Kinos. Some pop culture reference I'm missing here?

No reference, Kino simply means "cinema" in German and Russian, so Eli's just calling them cameras and being a language nerd about it.

Why do movie companies complain about trailers being put on youtube? What's wrong with free advertising? Or they're leaked and pulled to create scarcity, thereby driving interest up. If the video was the same one I saw elsewhere, studios don't usually shoot their trailers poorly framed up on the sc...

Big Orange wrote:but I prefer the 2010 logo already and it seems more like the logo for the ill fated 1996 TV movie.

No...the 1996 movie logo was a direct copy of the 1970 logo. The 2010 logo is like a modernization of the 1963 logo: it's got the same composition and proportions.

I never really liked the "old" new logo, so I think this one is great: pretty much a modern interpretation of the original 1963-66 title. I can't imagining it spinning around in a time vortex in the opening credits though. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they also changed the opening vis...

Having the initial encounter with a old, beat up, and unknown ship, and not solving the initial problem in the first two hours when you're just trying to introduce your audience to the cast as best you can is a good way to go. Yeah, it was nice not seeing everyone moving into quarters with the ligh...

I've been pretty interested in the show since it was first announced, so I'll definitely be catching the premiere.

Gandalf wrote:The simplest costume is probably the best one.

I believe one of the chief adages of Halloween costumes is "if you have to explain it, then it's not a good costume".

Regardless of however this current page three lock discussion turns out, I think the creation of a "new" Testing is completely unnecessary. Testing as it is has always functioned perfectly well as both a "casual" forum and one for more serious technical issues, and making two new...

When it comes to TNG, I ask, why bother with Blu-Ray? The VFX was designed for TV and does not scale at all. From everything I've heard, it looks like absolute shit. It wasn't until very late in TNG that it looked decent on DVD. Blu-Ray should look even worse. I don't believe Paramount has any curr...

While there's way too little information on the show beyond the fact that it exists to properly pass judgment (though it definitely sounds pretty generic), Rosenbaum's remark in the HR article about "revamping the Western genre" and "introduce the Western to a whole new generation&quo...

No, the Rakata are described as the next big thing in the galaxy after the Celestials faded.

I guess the Celestials from Star Wars could count, since it seems like they simply declined and disappeared rather than be outright defeated. Although there's virtually no information about them besides that they existed and several of the younger progenitor races might have been terrified of them.

I was pretty intrigued when I found out about this movie all those months ago when it was just the original short and a teaser trailer. But for some reason as time went on and more information has been revealed, I've found myself increasingly less interested in the final product. I think the revelat...

There's this movie called Dragonslayer, where the dragon is created using animatronics, but they used computer effects to smooth out the jerkiness. No, it was done using go motion, a type of stop motion animation where a puppet or model is moved slightly during exposure to replicate the effect of m...

I misread what this was at first, misinterpreting that the next live-action movie would be some kind of cartoon crossover, and for a second thought it was one of the worst ideas ever.

But after realizing what it really is, it sounds like it could be pretty cool.

What's really damning isn't the raw numbers themselves, but the trend they show. With only two exceptions, they continue in one direction - down. Downloading and online streaming won't account for that. Not to nitpick, but you'll see an overall downward trend looking at the ratings of virtually any...

I'm still pissed off at Cameron for ganking the real Avatar movie's title, though. It;s kind of silly to be mad at him for it, since he first developed his movie back in 1994 and has had the rights to "Avatar" as a title for just as long. The Last Airbender works as a better title for tha...

Big Orange wrote:Of course I really mean Jim Cameron, a talented man who has begun to lose the plot in the last decade, more so than Steven Spielberg.

That's an odd statement, considering James Cameron hasn't even made a fictional feature film in the last twelve years.

At the very least, it's nice to finally get a good look at the film's content after such a long no-show. In the end I think it all looks pretty good. The aliens themselves (which was the movie's main make-or-break factor) seem particularly well designed and expressive. The only thing I'm still iffy ...

I wonder how the whole Backwards Compatibility issue has worked out since back then. PS1 games are good to go, still no BC on PS2 titles because Sony are cunts. SCEA's reasoning is here , which is just a new way of saying "it's too much of an expensive hassle for us to care". I'm pretty n...

White Haven wrote:Not only is Rock and Rule awesome to watch with friends (and an 80s nut!), but your review of it has produced my new out of context theatre for the week. Rejoice!

Rock & Rule is the movie Heavy Metal so badly wanted to be.

Except Avatar isn't really "space opera" at all, it's just science fiction.

I've heard mostly second-hand that the out of print Little Nemo DVD includes the original Japanese version, which is about 15 minutes longer than the American dubbed release. Is there truth to that? I've kind of wanted to see that movie for a while. Also, I always liked Prince of Egypt a lot, mostly...

especially since the fantasy and superhero movie genres seem to be slowly winding down. While the fantasy movie genre has definitely cooled over in the last several years, by the number of projects currently in production and being planned, the superhero/comic book movie genre seems to still have s...

I really hopes they would want to do a continuation of the old series and give it a proper resolution. The article makes it pretty clear the producers' intentions is to do a full-fledged (third) reboot of the property. I agree with U; maybe in 15 years they can do another reinterpretation, but with...