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Movies and TV / Re: Interesting Movie Facts and Rumors
« on: July 22, 2002, 04:45:19 PM »
Well, it was announced today that Alfonso Cuaron will direct the third Harry Potter movie. I find it interesting that they chose a Mexican to direct a British film, especially since they were so determined to keep it a British film when they made the first one.  ::)

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Movies and TV / Re: Interesting Movie Facts and Rumors
« on: July 11, 2002, 07:58:09 PM »
Kid, I so regret that my file on aesthetic experiences is still with one of my professors. Anyways, during the early twentieth century, several people did experiments to see how people react to different art works. And by art I mean all of the arts (dance, drama, visual art, literature, poetry, music, film ect...). They found that there are basicly six reactions that people have. They were trying to discover just what is the best way to enjoy art. Critics actually are one category, which incidentally is not the best way to enjoy a work of art. Anyways, we repeated the experiment in one of my classes and found that it holds true.

Also, in post-modern/contemporary criticism it really unpopular to fit a mold, at least in the visual arts.

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Movies and TV / Re: Interesting Movie Facts and Rumors
« on: July 10, 2002, 08:03:07 PM »
Kid I think you misunderstood. It's not that Roger Ebert is easily manipulated, it's that he's not and therefor it takes more to interest him, but this is too much for people who are easily manipulated. And its not just horror and violence. The same thing happens with humor, sentimentality, cuteness, joy or just about any emotion. People simply get get emotionally tired after awhile.

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Movies and TV / Re: Interesting Movie Facts and Rumors
« on: July 10, 2002, 07:03:22 PM »
The length of the action sequences was the number one complaint about Spider-man in one of my film classes (about 60 students) when we took a class poll. And a simular poll was taken about FotR in an English class I took. I've also heard the complaint from several family members and friends. We were talking about the willingness of the audience to accept manipulation. If something is too intense, people's psychological defenses kick in and give them the opposite reaction as what the filmmaker or writer want. This why a lot of horror films also include a lot of humor to balance out the intesity so people can make it through the film. The problem is that critics and movie buffs can take a lot more than the average film-goer. They simply have become less sensative to emotional manipulation and have higher tolerance levels. That's why people like Roger Eboert never mention things like that as being problems. The average film-going may hae to watch the film a couple of times to prevent their psychological defenses from kicking in and be able to enjoy the whole thing.

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Movies and TV / Re: Interesting Movie Facts and Rumors
« on: July 09, 2002, 08:40:53 PM »
That's interesting, the largest complaint I've heard about LotR and other movies like Spider-Man is that the action sequences are too long. Hopefully, the Helm's Deep sequence isn't so intense that it bores the audience. People can only take so much before they just give-up waiting for the situation to resolve itself.

In other news, the League of Extraordinary Gentleman movie has started filming in Prague. It's starring Sean Connery. Also a script for a Submariner movie has been started. The scriptwriter has promised that the movie will have little to no tie ins to the comic books. Still, it looks like there will be no shortage of comic-book tie-in movies coming out soon.

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Role-Playing Games / Re: Setting Ideas Contest
« on: June 09, 2002, 04:14:08 PM »
I should point out that I'm expecting at least one person that I know to make it past the first round. If not I will have mock your time-wasting abilities. Initial proposals need to be sent by June 21st. That's less than two weeks from now.

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Flash GAMES
« on: June 08, 2002, 05:35:38 PM »
Oh we could find you. We have our...methods.

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Flash GAMES
« on: June 08, 2002, 12:59:10 PM »
But, EOUL you make such a great punching bag. :D You wouldn't want us to have to use sub-par equipment.

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Role-Playing Games / Re: Setting Ideas Contest
« on: June 07, 2002, 03:17:24 PM »
Sorry, it is $100,000 for the winner, plus the $20,000 for being a semi-finalist.

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Role-Playing Games / Setting Ideas Contest
« on: June 07, 2002, 02:57:09 PM »
Wizards just annouced that they are looking for fantasy world settings to use as a bases for RPG games and novels. They're hosting a contest, the grand prize is $20,000.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20020606a

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Flash GAMES
« on: June 04, 2002, 12:50:00 AM »
Scrolling screens are easy, we could do something like that.

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Flash GAMES
« on: May 31, 2002, 05:59:51 PM »
When we can get it posted. ;D

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Flash GAMES
« on: May 31, 2002, 03:05:19 PM »
Tried that. Didn't work.

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Flash GAMES
« on: May 31, 2002, 01:07:15 PM »
It just doesn't seem to work. Am I going to the wrong place to log in?

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Flash GAMES
« on: May 31, 2002, 11:33:44 AM »
Supposedly, I got a password, I'm just having a little trouble getting it to work.

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