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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Hunger Games' Book Tr... · 0 replies · +1 points
Despite the fact that they have a self-professed (and damned smart) Trotskyite on board as one of their main authors. Despite the fact that they are the only publisher that seems serious about giving out free samples (entire books!! Unencumbered by DRM!) - though oddly they do it because it makes them money.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Barack the Vote: MTV C... · 2 replies · +3 points
Meh.
While we're making "rock" puns, let's refer to an obscure animated movie from the 80's, and ask if perhaps our current president, if he stays in, will "Ba-Rock and Rule?"
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Frank Miller's Occupy ... · 0 replies · +1 points
His analysis of what was wrong with Star Wars I and II are also worth reading.
The guys position on anything politically related is not subject to the same intellectual rigor he applies elsewhere. Effectively the opposite.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Frank Miller's Occupy ... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'L.A. Times': Hollywoo... · 0 replies · +2 points
That said, the genie is out of the bottle.
Lastly, as "cheap" as bandwidth is, even given our rural and geographic issues, it should be a hell of a lot cheaper, for a lot more of it.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'L.A. Times': Hollywoo... · 0 replies · +1 points
http://www.starwreck.com/
http://www.starcommandseries.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'L.A. Times': Hollywoo... · 0 replies · +4 points
I like the commentary on most, but it's still enough of a crapshoot as far as actually _adding_ to the film that I'm hesitant to spend more for that.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Death of Coherent ... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Death of Coherent ... · 0 replies · +1 points
I don't think the "chaos" was overdone in the Dark Knight, in Inception, or in Blackhawk Down.
If anything, the movie made it easier to track who was doing what where than the books... and the treatment, while letting you know both what was going on, AND how the people involved felt, was brilliant.
Transformers left me numb.
It's not the frenetic cuts, it's the fact that the cuts are all visual noise and don't tell you what's actually going on that's the problem.
Well, that and the shaky camera work on black swan literally made me nauseous - and I'm not normally susceptible to shaky cam.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Conservative-Empowerin... · 0 replies · +1 points
Other recommendations by them would be Immortal and Quicksilver, but those are less overtly themed.
I fully second the mention of Rush elsewhere in the thread.