God, it's me.... Pfellah. I don't ask for much, but I'm gonna ask you this one favor. Please please PLEASE let this movie get delayed in post-production until my 4-year-old is too old to be interested. And see if you can do something about that world peace thing if you have a minute.

From what I'm told the movie is very campy. The story is apparently really boring, and cheesy. Some 3D animators I knew went to it and they ended up looking at the compositing more then watching the movie. And from a film standpoint apparently the cinemtography is really nice. My arguement to that is if you are reduced to admiring the cinemtography and special effects because the mvie itself is boring, then it fails as a movie to entertain people.

I think that's a decent way of looking at it. There was never that much depth to the TV series -- who's he racing against, what's the complication gonna be, where are Sprytle and Chim-Chim gonna turn up, how are they gonna resolve it -- so you either have to embrace that shallowness and hope that's what people will like about it, or you can use the skeletal source material as just a blueprint and graft some dramatic gravity on to the bones. Seems like they tried to do both and succeeded at neither.

I saw that, at first I thought it was a joke. I was really hoping the H&M stuff was only a once over thing. It's things like this that really make me feel Maxis really doesn't care about the players anymore and it's all about squeezing as much money out of the game as possible.

Different strokes for different folks. Some Sims players are really in to trying to duplicate reality in the game as closely as possible, and having real branded options in the game probably appeals to some. I can't imagine pumping out a few new skins is pulling that many resources away from other projects, and one can always choose not to buy. (I think I only ever bought one Stuff Pack, though I do have all the expansions...)

Definetly, and as soon as the technology is there for my to upload my mind into a computer, I'm there.  Immortality here I come.

Unless they load you on a Vista machine.

But if Claire died why would Jack be so resentful of Aaron? 

In my mind I can picture something like this, Claire is sick and Kate is looking after him.  She and the other Oceanic 6 are down by the beach or something a Helicopter comes says they came to rescue them but they have to leave now, a storm is coming. Something anywhere along there.

Or maybe for some reason or other the people on the freighter demand to bring the Oceanic 6. Claire in a desperate attempt to keep Aaron safe gives the baby to Kate. (maybe things get really dangerous on the island). Of course I don't see Jack agreeing to just leave like that, obviously I'm missing things, but these are general ideas I'm playing with.

I don't think Jack resents Aaron per se. I suspect it's more of a guilt thing... maybe Claire got hurt, he was the only doctor around, and failed to save her. That would make Aaron a constant reminder of his failure... which, we know by now he takes this stuff personally.

I'm watching season 4 Ep.9.
 Why does he call the one girl 13?

Back when the search for his new team was starting, there were something like 40 candidates and he gave them all numbers. For whatever reason -- I believe it was because she wouldn't divulge any personal information about herself -- he just kept calling her 13. (I mean, presumably he has her resume, so he could use her name if he wanted...)

Quote from: PatMan33 on February 08, 2008, 01:16:01 pm

Clinton polarizes the masses, if you were a McCain supporter you'd probably want Clinton to win the nomination because moderates will not vote for her.

It is just that I am not sure this is true, outside the news.  All the talking heads seem to be getting it wrong, and over reaching.  Clinton is more moderate than Obama... so if I ignore the political analysts, Clinton could reasonably do much better, unless the "Clinton hating" is as bad as the analysts purport.
Also, Clinton being a moderate lefty may create more net apathy for moderate righty McCain.  So, I wonder if Obama would bring out more conservative to the polls than Clinton would bring out "Clinton haters".

The US population has become so bipolar [sic] that I can't wrap my head around it.

I also wonder about the political analysts' claim that deciding between Clinton and Obama at the convention is a bad thing, while McCain is free to campaign nationally.  I am not convinced of this either.  Waiting until the convention leaves the GOP without a definite target, and hand waving attacks against both are more likely to invoke the ire of the people, than to frame the election in GOP terms.

I have no clue...

As far as the first part, I'm someone who feels exactly like the media says... and it's not politics, it's personality. Hillary has shown herself to be a venomous personality who expects to get her way -- because damnit she's smarter and just a better person than the rest of us -- and gets real petty when she doesn't, and I don't think those are qualities we need in the Oval Office when we've got serious issues to deal with that will REQUIRE bipartisan cooperation. Say what you will about McCain's age or Obama's inexperience, but they seem like guys who will truly work with the other side if it's the right thing to do; Hillary's very much cut from "my way or the highway" cloth, and I don't think that's what we need.

(For the record, I'm not against the general notion of a woman President... just not THAT woman.)

As far as the second part, the reason they say that is because campaigns run on money. If Obama and Clinton spend all their money pummeling each other into submission, what will the winner have left to go against (presumably) McCain. Furthermore, what wounds will they have inflicted on each other for (presumably) McCain to take advantage of?

Lastly, someone was talking about McCain VP candidates... I have two different notions on this -- 1) he keeps going after independents, moderates, and Democrats on the fence by going with Joe Lieberman -- who's pro-war enough to appeal to the base, but still has some lingering credentials with Democrats, or 2) he throws a bone to the religious right and picks someone like Rick Santorum.

(I'd like to state for the record that "McCain/Santorum wins the White House in '08, followed by McCain having a heart attack two weeks after taking office" is pretty much the point at which I'll be looking into New Zealand citizenship, even if it does mean a six-month wait for movies to get into theatres there...)