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But seeing someone take credit or money for someone else's work and creativity is crossing the line for just about everyone, including the share-it-all-on-Pirate-Bay crowd.
My guess is that the current generation will age out of bit torrent life and condemn its excesses in the same way that young people aged out of psychedelic drugs and turned on them in the 1980s. They're heady with power now but will change as they age and discourage their own kids from doing what they did. It will never go away, but may greatly diminish if it's really stigmatized.
I agree that it is crossing the line, and it certainly will be stigmatized, as it well should. But, I don't see it getting better at, given the attitude that people take towards media and digital copying.
No, there's definitely a massive disrespect for IP in this generation. You see it all over the place with the casual use of Piratebay, expecting everything available for free on youtube, or streamed through a music service (that you don't have to pay for).
Yeah, that is a part of it too. So, it has definitely turned in to more of a generational thing, simply by virtue of the fact of the technological access that the younger generations have access too. So, yeah, it will just keep getting worse and worse.
*Note: this should not be seen, in any way, as a slam against older people and technology. That is not the intention at all.
I dunno if I necessarily agree. Yeah, my generation is pretty careless about IP. But they're also internet-savvy enough to know that people are going to figure out, and quickly, that you've plagiarized something. Especially something from a well-respected artist. Remember the uproar a few months ago when One Direction released a song that sounded kinda like Baba O'Riley? This isn't a generational indicator as much as it is a "Shia LaBeouf is an idiot" indicator.
I wish I could be certain about that, but even if itsn't plagiarism, there is the whole copyright violation and piracy. Yeah, I know, that's an old thing, but it is becoming worse in the digital age. I take the disrespect for IP attitude as beginning with piracy and carrying over to things, like what Shia did.
I have no urge to click that link and rub it in. Nothing about this situation is funny to me. I take no joy from mocking Shia right now. He got busted, he's paying the price. Friend of the show David Stripinis wrote this last night on twitter and I couldn't agree more.
"We have an entire generation coming that has no respect for IP.
Expect more, and worse."
I agree with this sentiment and it makes me worry about the future of movies and other properties.
Time travel stories, loops or no loops, will require some form of technobable so I think I can forgive it that point. Quantum temporal mechanics are not exactly the easiest of building blocks...
No, trust me, this one makes absolutely no sense on any level and the terminology used sounds like something from a CollegeHumor parody sketch.
At the risk of sounding contrary, none of them. If a movie interests me, negative reviews or no, I'll see it. If not, all the star power in the world is not going to get me there.
The time turner doesn't quite work the same way. If Cruise were using it, there would end up being hundreds of Tom Cruises all fighting a... Holy shit, that's such a good idea...
...oh my god.
Matrix was there first...
And Oblivion had Cruise on Cruise action (if you're into that sorta thing)
Then there was Tron: Legacy with Bridges vs. Bridges.
I dunno. I think I've kinda burned out on Nolan as a filmmaker. Yeah, he's talented and all, but a lot of his recent films are fraught with storytelling issues. But since his films have that glossy look, that style that tells you, "This movie is important," people don't care, and they call him the best filmmaker working today. It's just, ugh. I dunno. If the theme of Interstellar interested me at all, maybe I'd be excited. But right now, I just don't care.
Thou shalt not blaspheme against Him, or take His holy name in vain, or put any directors before Him, or express indifference towards Him.
Time travel stories, loops or no loops, will require some form of technobable so I think I can forgive it that point. Quantum temporal mechanics are not exactly the easiest of building blocks...
But, it certainly has an interesting premise, ignoring the temporal mechanics, especially Cruise's line regarding not being a soldier, implying that this might not have been his original career. Again, a good trailer causing more questions than revealing the whole plot (at least, in theory).
I read one of the earlier drafts of the script for a class. The action sounds beautifully brutal but the actual story and characters are weak. However, the explanation for how/why the time-loop happens is the absolute worst technobabble bullshit ever conceived.
Actually you don't need to answer that, I've had plenty of people explain to me in an array vivid and colourful ways exactly why Repo is a giant pile of shit. But I don't care, I still love it to death.
Note that I didn't say anything was wrong with it, so much as it is out of the box style horror involves all kinds of fun ways to kill people...hey, bring the family
My roommate and I have been watching all the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movies. We wanted to do it during October but between life and the Potterthon we've only now managed to get through FREDDY'S DEAD.
As much as I adore a good horror film, I don't think I understand the popularity of horror franchises. I've seen all of the HELLRAISER films, all but one of the SAW films, and now am up to this point with Freddy. Almost all of them start with a promising premise then quickly devolve into nonsense, contradicting their internal mythology multiple times in order to justify continuing the franchise.
Not that I am a horror fan, so I really am not qualified to comment, but I agree on this one. It is like the series either feels need the need to ramp up the shock value or it retreads the same tropes and hoping we don't notice.
Like Trey said, that is true of many franchises, but horror rests so much on either shock or ick, so, one way or the other, the ante gets upped every time.
I just heard the Special Edition DOS soundtrack - but I'm not feeling it. There's a couple of okay sections, but no where near the quality of the original scores. And that can't be blamed on green screen and CG. Just like John Williams' prequel scores weren't up to the standard of the original scores.
So far, I have not been impressed by the DOS soundtrack but this cover of the credits song impressed me:
If your sister loves them, great. But in know way does that justify what Jackson did, at least in my mind.
I mean, yeah. It's less a comment on the films' quality and more me ceasing to care.
Yeah.
For me, the Hobbit book is not really why I'm annoyed by the movie so much as I don't think it should have been made in to a movie. So, it has kind of divorced, in my mind, from the book and from the LOTR trilogy. I still think it is a pretty film, there are some fun, entertaining bits, and it is fine for me like that. I love seeing Gandalf and Radagast, and highly anticipate Cumberbatch's performance.
My little sister is 13 and she loves the book. She's super psyched for DoS, so I'll take her to see it.
Maybe this trilogy isn't for us. Maybe this is her thing. She'll probably love this year's Hobbit, and next year's. She'll grow up remembering how much she loved them. We got a great Middle-Earth trilogy from Peter Jackson. We can hand off the next one.
I would agree with this and this is why I have no problem with the tone choice of the first one, even compared to LOTR.
I just feel like the Hobbit cannot be adapted very well, but that is just me. The movies overall will probably be well done, but just not my thing in terms of their replay value.
However, I will still see it next week and am amazed by the work done.
Cool looking trailer, but why are a few marines being dropped into a city to combat a skyscraper-high monster? Looks like a computer game scenario, but have we forgotten about our artillery, missiles, nukes, etc again. Is it all about [deep trailer voice] 'in a world gone mad, one man stands alone'
