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10 years ago @ sterow - The City in Your Hand · 0 replies · +1 points

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13 years ago @ sterow - A Photographic History... · 0 replies · +1 points

Pleasantville actually used a purpose built town centre, bizarelly enough constructed in the parking lot at Malibu Creek State Park. For the residential streets they used another familiar set, the residential street at the Warner Bros (formerly Columbia) ranch.

13 years ago @ sterow - Job Opportunities in t... · 0 replies · +1 points

Nimai, I finally got my first brief hands-on with the new SimCity yesterday. I don't have time to give it any in-depth play right now, but I hope to spend some time with it in June (after my current teaching commitments are done) and write some further thoughts on it then.

13 years ago @ sterow - 3.14159 out of 4 Stars · 0 replies · +1 points

The supplies I think were just well stowed in the boat, so it didn't strike me as odd that they still had their booklet. I don't necessarily want to get into what happened on the boat because I don't want to get into spoilers; suffice to say that part of the point of the story is the question about how to interpret the events on the boat.

With the tiger at the end I think the important point is not whether the tiger lived or died, but rather the fact that the tiger walked away without giving Pi a second thought. I liked that; the film doesn't try to make the tiger something other than a wild animal.

13 years ago @ sterow - 3.14159 out of 4 Stars · 0 replies · +1 points

I suppose that is what I was alluding to in referring to the effects as a tool in his palette, and contrasting this with the more traditional aesthetics of Brokeback. It is definitely a deliberate look, and the effect is certainly not realist: you could descrue it variously as hyperreal or dreamlike. However IMO that served the story well.

13 years ago @ sterow - Hell’s Bells · 0 replies · +1 points

Interesting. That article talks of minor changes for Cimino's new cut, but doesn't make it very clear which cut they used as their starting point.

I'm more interested in the apparent colour-correction: it's been a few years, but the DVD certainly looked hazy.

13 years ago @ sterow - New Home Showcases Inn... · 0 replies · +1 points

Note: I have removed a spam link from the above comment, but left it up because it's just so funny. Whichever person / algorithm decided to use this article to attach their spam to seems to have slightly missed the point.

13 years ago @ sterow - Hey, Planning Nerds! A... · 0 replies · 0 points

The difficulty with that argument is that the clearly intended use of documents put online by government - that they be downloaded and used by professionals and the wider public - would constitute a technical copyright breach. I believe the use here is consistent with that intended use.

Anyone with a legitimate issue and claim with regards to copyright is more than welcome to email me.

14 years ago @ sterow - Melbourne Too Does Not... · 0 replies · +2 points

Do tell, good folk at CSQ Town Planning and Blog Spamming Services.

14 years ago @ sterow - Alien Revisitation · 0 replies · +1 points

I think the difference in geek vs critic reviews can be put down to two things. Firstly, sci-fi nerds will be less impressed by the underlying sci-fi concepts than many critics, since they're pretty old hat within the genre.

Secondly, those super familiar with Alien (as opposed to remembering the broad outlines) will spot more of the spots where the films don't really align quite right. (Most notably, if you're not super familiar with Alien, you'll assume that Prometheus sets up the derelict spaceship from that film: yet various things in the film suggest it isn't the same one).

I also think it may give too much credit to assume the plot holes will be fixed in a longer cut. I didn't get a sense of things being missing so much as flat out nonsensical based on information we did have. (Its actually a brisk running time by current standards, too, so I don't know why it would be cut to the narrative bone). But I suppose we shall see.

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