The original Jurassic Park though set many new breakthroughs in new technology. Being a cinema projectionist you are able to see the audience reaction to a film paricularly when you screen it sometimes hundreds of times. The first scene where the Dinosaur was on screen with it's head maybe sixty feet in the air reaching up for leaves on a tree gathered many gasps from the audience as it was so well done and they had not seen anything like it before. Sound wise it also broke new ground as the first major production using DTS 6 track sound which was run from a CD in sync with time code on the print. So it really broke a lot of new ground when first released.

El Gordo: I think one of his best or maybe two were The Thing and Starman or even Escape From New York however all these films were made on shoestring budgets and he only seemed to lose his way when his budged increased.

Ahhhh... Mars Attacks! Brilliant. EdSki.

On that subject, note how well Beck handles the whole situation sort of sensing that he need to massage the O'reilly ego regularly to not "rock the boat"
Anyone seen their show (bold Fresh Tour) at all and if so what was your impression?

So tell me Jake, if you were in his place and you had a sure fire winner but didn't care for the subtext of the story, you would say nah, take it to warners, Universal etc let them make all the money. want to know how long you would remain in business with that attitude?

A common mis-understanding is big venture capitalists and wall st heavies are right of centre, not so, these are the people who are progressives in all they do and are also big Obama supporters. That is why a lot of them populate the administration. They are like minded. Don't get sucked in by the "noise" from Obama of these evil big corp heavies, they all dine at the same table.

So you would prefer another studio makes the sequel? Sure that would make a lot of sense to the shareholders I'm sure.

Your missing the point entirely Jon, there is a huge difference in being a harsh critic of a product but being able to admire the guts it takes to back a half billion dollar risk. I remember not so long ago when Avatar's budget was announced and immediately all the hate site bloggers celebrated with "thats the end of Fox". Pure guts and a project of this magnitude gets green lit from the very top.

He is in fact conservative however he is not conservative to the detriment of his business. He backed Hilary because there was no conservative alternative worth thinking about plus she was instrumental in getting as he put it "good things for the city" at the time. Back here in australia he owns several papers considered to be right wing however none of his papers restrict liberal commentary which has been a key to his success. Look at Fox News, they have many many liberal pundits where as messynbc have wall to wall libs with token conservatives that are really liberal conservatives and there is not many of them either. The head of Fox Studios until recently Peter Chernin is a big lib however he was one of the best at running a studio. He has now gone out on his own but is releasing through Fox. Biography Channel has a pretty good documentary on the Murdoch dynasty which is worth a look. gives a good insite on the man himself and what drives him.

Certainly is a powerful advert, really impressive and to the point with a dynamic soundtrack to boot.