@Buzz Mega: I dunna, I wasn't exctly blown away by Avatar at all. Don't get me wrong it was good, but not the life-altering cinema everyone I knew proclaimed it to be. Also, they used Papyrus in their title, and that's just grounds for public lashings no matter how great the product is.
@animeman59: So a bad apple or two means we destroy the whole tree? That's beyond retarded and it's been the message of this thread.
For the record, the original Titans was shit, ALL of the Final Destination(s) have been shit, and Avatar was as predictable as the rest of the gray, committee produced muck that gets pumped out of Hollywood by the barrel. But since that was not anywhere in my post, how about ya stick to what I said instead of putting words in my mouth when you're making a rebuttal to my "weak counter-arguments"
@akarpens: That's great. I think he's a crotchety old man who's afraid of change. Apparently I'm not the only one who feels this way. In either case it's solely a matter of opinion.
Also, I think your rebuttal is weak as well.
1. It's the waste of a dimension.
You're a crotchety old man who fears technology and change.
2. It adds nothing to the experience.
See reply no.1
3. It can be a distraction.
A distraction that causes you to look at the screen, which is what you're supposed to be looking at.
4. It can create nausea and headaches.
I'll give you that one.
5. Have you noticed that 3-D seems a little dim?
If you look for a problem with something, you will probably find one. Have you noticed that your arguments are getting pretty weak?
6. It's an excuse to buy new digital projectors.
Customers are an excuse to buy new projectors. Seats, too, and god forbid they install motion sensors in the bathrooms!
7. Theaters slap on a surcharge of $5 to $7.50 for 3-D.
Yup. It cost someone more money to make a "3-d" movie, the theater more money to have the same movie in four separate rooms, and a shipping company to move separate boxes of "3-d" and "2-d" movies.
8. I cannot imagine a serious drama in 3-D (neither can I).
So you choose not to imagine it. 3-d is a part of a greater medium of entertainment. It's like saying you can't imagine eating bacon and popcorn while you watch the movie. You chose not to, that doesn't mean it's impossible or implausible.
9. Whenever Hollywood has felt threatened, it has turned to technology to save the day.
Yeah, that's kind of a standard response across a lot of American industries. Hooray capitalism and a controlled flow of technology. Whenever you're running low on Viagra money you turn to bashing something to generate buzz.
10. This is one man's opinion. Who the hell cares what a crotchety old man waving his cane around says. See the responses made by the Penny Arcade duo and Zero Punctuation's Ben Croshaw (Yahtzee) about the last rant good ol' Roger made about video-games.
@Lite: is not Gray Powell: If they had pointed that out in the movie the title would have been something to the tune of "America's Adventures in Jackassery at Sea", and Celine Dion wouldn't have made a fortune on that lame ass song. Capitalism would have failed.
@aec007: What about games in 3D? Just a thought, but wouldn't it make games like your FPS's doubly awesome to get a more genuine sense of depth when you're getting called a hacker by a snotty 13 year old you just fragged for the tenth time? I can only imagine the painfully visceral end to Poseidon in GOW 3 rendered in such as way as to almost feel the thumbs gouging out your eyes, not to mention some of your better racing or flight sims that would all but convey the G-force directly...Or, alternately, I could just be a mindless wind-up monkey clanging two cheap brass symbols together every time I see something shiny. Oh and don't forget the fez, because fezzes are awesome *clang clang clang*
This chart would put me in a gray area around the PC Nerd camp. I like Apple's aesthetic but the price is not worth the pretty, at least to me. Also, having gone back and forth between the Mac and PC labs at school I can honestly say that I've seen no difference in Photoshop's functionality, save that on a Mac you don't get the 50% gray window to work in, (which is allegedly there to help keep your eyes "calibrated" to color).
I'm the type that thinks that a person who has to play with an app because they're in line for a whole 2 minutes looks like a douche, and someone doing the same while walking down the sidewalk is an idiot for not paying attention to their surroundings, (I've almost run into these ass-hats in parking lots too many times to count).
@StupidPopMediaReference: Mine is the ability to see through women's clothing at will. It's kind of obvious when I do it, though.
If someone could pump nothing more than static over the corpo-rock stations they have here in Florida I'd be more than happy. While they're at it they can take down the one god awful "classic rock" station that has David Lee Roth's wang lodged between their ears. Until then I eagerly await public wifi so I can get Pandora or Hardradio while I drive.
@Stevenson: Those guys that answer stuff on my phone?
@Mouser_UK: Does the UK still have those old witch laws?
@rnrxtreme: I saw stills from that and I now know what it's like to have something in memory so horrible that it simply will not ever go away.
The cruelty and indifference to suffering that some people exhibit is both shocking and mortifying.
@Ramitt: I concur.
Just beware the inevitable crash later...
@LPandion: You're a sick man. Now where did you find that shark porn again?
I read "a paper to be published next month by neuroscientists in China" and stopped.
So if a coaxial cable goes into the back of the tv...hmmm. Now I know why there's nothing but shit on tv
@pinova: 1 Klondike Bar *scratch that* 2 Klondike Bars
@connorlovesrozzo: Tape ftw
