Apparently the TV or film company would have to pay M$ a license fee to show the software in a programme, so they'd create their own.
Ermmm Linux/GNU software?
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Things I am sick of in american films
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Oh, I forgot,
"show me the CCTV footage... now zoom in... and enhance sector G2..." *bing* hi-res image of the bad guy from a screencap that looks like it came from a ZX81.
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Cougar, if you were to wear a power balance you'll be my new hero
Surely I'd need one for each wrist or my power would be imbalanced.
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Also British actors should not be allowed to play Americans, and American actors should not be allowed to play British characters.
I've never understood this; it's not like there's a great shortage of either. One of my favourite films is Highlander, but it always chaffed my arse that the lead two characters were a Frenchman playing a Scot and a Scotsman playing an Egyptian. What's up with that? Eh? EH? Dogs and cats, living together.
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Any film where the advert has a plain white background, featuring 2 or 3 heavily airbrushed lead characters, pulling odd faces, is generally a cliche laden stink fest.
Trainspotting is a good exception Pook, and hey as you said, it wasn't actually American
I meant more like this load of toot:
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Oh, I forgot,
"show me the CCTV footage... now zoom in... and enhance sector G2..." *bing* hi-res image of the bad guy from a screencap that looks like it came from a ZX81.
Lol that is a classic. Probably most of the sudience have used computers nowadays? Yet they still peddle this nonsense!
CSI does my head in for this. And how they can have the whooshy noises and strange zooms when someone is putting some pus in a petri dish or something....unbeliveable.
Most of these geeks must have poor eyesight too, as the 'accesibility' settings are pretty much always turned up to the max
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.....is generally a cliche laden stink fest
Ah yes, Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau ........ could it be more cliché laden ?
And I've lost count on amount of times I've gone to see Disney or DreamWorks films under the mistaken belief that they would be serious highbrow film, only to be bitterly disappointed when they turned out to be nothing more than cliché laden stink feasts.
But now I know to keep away from films where the advert has a plain white background, featuring 2 or 3 heavily airbrushed lead characters, pulling odd faces.
Thanks "ooOOoo" ........ a good point well made.
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I like CSI!
I know some of it's preposterous, like the 3-D holograms of inside bodies and that, but I find much of it fascinating and informative. Very enjoyable telly for me.
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Ah yes, the infinite resolution camera. 'Enemy of the State' was a classic for this sort of stuff "Computer, hypothesize what might be in the bag"
Also, computer users randomly fluttering their hands over keyboards. See Swordfish.
And telephones dialing out preposterously fast. In a film press a button on the phone and the other person picks up within a second or so.
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Poor old Les Munro, lives through WW2 Dambusters and all that, and gets sent to live in Masterton ?? Send in the SAS and rescue him now.
I have to admit to a guilty liking of US Cop shows. Got bored with CSI ages ago, but Law & Order still delivers the goods. I have no other vices honest.
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Yeah but think about it; in real life, your 'phone goes but you could be on the bog squeezing one out, and it'll take you several seconds to get to the 'phone. And computers take 30 seconds or more or whatever to fully boot up. 'Realism' in such instances would be quite boring.
Geographical things annoy me. Film I watched last night had a car going over Tower bridge with the Tower behind them, so heading south. Turned a corner and towards St. Pauls.
That is slightly annoying, when you know an area well. Just lazy film-making. Spooks does this all the time, to the point where I do actually find it spoils my personal enjoyment of the show. Yes, I think continuity is important. At least have the action follow a realistic route. Worse is when the weather changes from shot to shot! But it's not that big a deal. The 'acting' in something like Spooks is worthy of far more criticism...
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sick of. . . . the black guy always dies first.
and the . . . we'll tackle the race issue 5 minute interludes . . .
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Brits do this kind of thing too btw. What is the Go To Regional Accent for portraying a psychopathic nutter ?? Glaswegian, every time. That annoys me.
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Thanks "Ernie". Glad to be of help
In return, could you explain sarcasm to me?Posted 1 year ago # -
Oooh,
"trace this call"
*geographical map* ... every few seconds, a line crosses... "Atlanta... New York... London... Paris... Istanbul... too late, he's hung up before we've got a trace.
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willard .
My pet hate has to be the gun thing though. Too many rounds in the magazine, super-accurate onehanded moving car shootouts, tables blocking rounds... That sort of thing. I know from personal experience that a railway sleeper will not stop a standard 9mm round, so why will a table stop that and heavier? Grrrrr.
And on the flip side of this you have what? An action movie with gun fight scenes where few people ever get shot? Again, suspend your disbelief.
As for 9mm round going througha railway sleeper, it would depend on velocity, range, angle of entry and what you class as a standard round. If you were being shot at and had the choice of standing in the open or taking cover behind a table what would you choose?
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Ah yes, the Hollywood race thing.
The black cop and the white cop are allowed to be best friends, but at the end of the day the black cop always goes home to his black wife and the white cop always goes home to his white wife.Posted 1 year ago # -
Will Ferrell.
Adam "Shouty" Sandler.Posted 1 year ago # -
heres one for you.
Transformers - girl downloads hideously classified info from a computer using an SD card in a secure CIA building and manages to leave with it.
However, on loading the data onto a computer owned by her chubby pal in the hood they are all over them like a rash in 30 seconds.
Go figure.
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what I really hate about American films
In fact any filmsIs the price of popcorn and a drink
Oh and stinky nachos, who decided it would be a good idea to serve them in cinemas. They smell and they crunch. Bad idea
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Also British actors should not be allowed to play Americans
I agree, apparently they're known as the white Mexicans of Hollywood cause they get paid up to half of what an American actor would receive for the same role.
What always annoys me is when 5 minutes have past in the plot yet it's gone from broad daylight to absolute pitch black!
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MidlandtrailquestsGraham
Download and watch Boardwalk Empire, a great show about prohibition America. Lots of Americans shooting Americans but is so good.
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Re the gun thing. Wasn't there that scene in Spooks in one of the last shows of the most recent series where this guy was shot in the shoulder by a sniper with a .50 cal Browning? He had a nice little hole and was up and about with a sling in a few scenes. Shows we can cock up on the realism front too!
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Pigface - Member
MidlandtrailquestsGrahamDownload and watch Boardwalk Empire, a great show about prohibition America. Lots of Americans shooting Americans but is so good.
Just finished watching season 1 last night. You can also add Brits playing Americans into the mix as I know for a fact Al Capone is played by [url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0334318/]matey out of This Is England.
That should get all the haters nice and angry
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Pigface, it's not just a blanket objection to films about Americans shooting people, I thought Saving Private Ryan was one of the best films I have seen.
Maybe I'm a bit out of touch because I haven't got a TV and I'm getting films confused with TV series. Most of my experience of watching Americans on a screen comes from living at home with my parents when it was all Columbo, Ironside, Rockford Files, Charlies Angels and Streets of San Francisco.
Maybe not relevant to modern films, but then again, when I think of modern American films, I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Will Smith and Clint Eastwood shooting people.Posted 1 year ago # -
jimjam - Member
willard .
My pet hate has to be the gun thing though. Too many rounds in the magazine, super-accurate onehanded moving car shootouts, tables blocking rounds... That sort of thing. I know from personal experience that a railway sleeper will not stop a standard 9mm round, so why will a table stop that and heavier? Grrrrr.And on the flip side of this you have what? An action movie with gun fight scenes where few people ever get shot? Again, suspend your disbelief.
As for 9mm round going througha railway sleeper, it would depend on velocity, range, angle of entry and what you class as a standard round. If you were being shot at and had the choice of standing in the open or taking cover behind a table what would you choose?
Granted that penetration depends on a lot of things, but I was talking about standard 9mm ball rounds from a packet marked 9mmx19 ball, fired through a generic Browning 9mm at a target about 10m away (ok, so he missed and got the sleeper, but it was his first go with a pistol). A lot of the films have shootouts inside a house, and it's rare to see a range bigger than a few meters in the scenes, so why would a table stop the round?
As for personal choice, I would not be _hiding_ behind a table. I'd use it to cover my movement to something more substantial. Like a brick wall. Or a pile of logs. Or some sandbags. Or the next house. But that's just me.
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you have given this too much thought as the word fiction means made up ! we used to have a fine system in place for challenging TV /Films for not being real when we were students PS arnie is not a robot and Tom Cruise cannot fly planes
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What I hate about American films is the way that America seems to churn out so many interesting, entertaining and occasionally classic movies as opposed to the usual inverted snobbery/"social realism" boring tripe that passes for film-making in this little introverted backwater...
Apart from one film by Mike Leigh.
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boring tripe that passes for film-making in this little introverted backwater...
As someone who sometimes makes that (sometimes international, multi award winning) tripe in our introverted backwater I'd like to point out that if anyone doesn't like them, thinks they should be better or thinks there should be more of them (as in more better ones). Then you only have Thatcher to blame.
Seriously.
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as opposed to the usual inverted snobbery/"social realism" boring tripe that passes for film-making in this little introverted backwater...
Jus because you are not spoon fed the best of UK cinema at the World of Cine WonderPlex does not mean they are not out there.
In the last couple of years I could point you at:
Skeletons
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
An Education
The King's Speech
Monsters
Moon
Nowhere Boy
Triangle
The Hide
Tony: A London Serial Killer
Harry Brown
HeartlessEtc etc.
....an obviously anything by Shane Meadows.
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I'm sure that the idea that to properly finance films, you need government (ie: the taxpayer's) money will be of huge interest to Hollywood.
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Did anyone mention Nic Cage yet?
Although his presence in a film is usually a handy indication that it's not something I'd enjoy.
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Obviously, you haven't seen "Adaptation" or "Bad Lieutenant". Or "Raising Arizona". Or "Face Off".
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Raising Arizona was a very good film.
Actually, he was in Kick Ass too, and that wasn't bad.
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If you star in 200 films a year, some of them are bound to end up being halfway watchable.
The list of bad Nic Cage films would be far, far longer though, wouldn't it?
Have you seen this pic from two different films?
Gutted I can't find the brilliant blog page of the guy who put it together.
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