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James Cameron recently told Vanity Fair that Piranha 3D “cheapens the medium of 3D", and proceeded to slag the genre, saying it harks back to bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s. Mr. Box Office Champ added, "When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity and at the last gasp of their financial lifespan, they did a 3D version to get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip.” Humorously, he did not say anything about the re-release of Avatar with EIGHT NEW MINUTES of footage. (*yawn*)“Jim, are you kidding or what? First of all, let’s start by you accepting the fact that you were the original director of Piranha 2 and you were fired. Shame on you for thinking that genre movies and the real maestros like Roger Corman and his collaborators are any less auteur or impactful in the history of cinema than you. Martin Scorcese made Boxcar Bertha at the beginning of his career. And Francis Ford Coppola made Dimentia 13 back in 1963. And those are just a few examples of the talented and successful filmmakers whose roots are in genre films. Who are you to impugn any genre film or its creators?
“Having been deeply involved, as either an executive or as a producer, on Tim Burton’s original Batman and the first Men In Black, as well as 300, and now Immortals, one of the things that has been consistent about all of the filmmakers involved in these landscape-changing global films is that, in each and every case, all of the directors were humbled by their predecessors, their colleagues and by their awareness of the great history of film that came before them. The enjoyment and the immersion of an audience in a movie theatre, as they had and will have with the above-mentioned films, and as audiences are experiencing with Piranha 3D now, comes from the originality and the vision of the filmmaker, and not just from the creation of the technology.
Let’s just keep this in mind Jim….you did not invent 3D. You were fortunate that others inspired you to take it further. The simple truth is that I had nothing but good things to say about Avatar and my own experience since I actually saw it and didn’t damn someone else’s talent publicly in order to disassociate myself from my origins in the business from which we are all very fortunate . To be honest, I found the 3D in Avatar to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish Avatar had been more original in its storytelling.
Finally answering the question, "What if the Gunnery Sergeant played by R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket spoke like Donald Duck?" Can you get to Private Pyle without pissing yourself?
Last year, The Dirty.com (who?) featured a post about Sarah Jones (who?), a cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals (who?). As you can tell by their name, they don't post baking recipies, so there should be little shock that one of thier posters had some less than flattering things to say about her. This was the post that started it all:THE DIRTY ARMY: Nik, here we have Sarah J, captain cheerleader of the playoff bound cinci bengals.. Most ppl see Sarah has a gorgeous cheerleader AND highschool teacher.. yes she’s also a teacher.. but what most of you don’t know is.. Her ex Nate.. cheated on her with over 50 girls in 4 yrs.. in that time he tested positive for Chlamydia Infection and Gonorrhea.. so im sure Sarah also has both.. whats worse is he brags about doing sarah in the gym.. football field.. her class room at the school she teaches at DIXIE Heights.
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You can see it this Saturday at 10pm at Cinefamily Los Angeles - one of many weekend events I'm pimping.
The modern pentathlon will switch to using laser pistols for the shooting portions of the event in the 2012 Olympics. Sure that sounds kinda cool, except the pentathlon is running, shooting, swimming, fencing, and riding horses. Meh.
Both scientists and polar bears have been studying why fish in the Arctic ocean don’t freeze in the sub-zero temperatures, and their research has turned up a natural antifreeze that keeps their blood flowing. And the bears find it adds a little zest to the flavor.
With Matt Greene sidelined for close to half the season after shoulder surgery, venerable two-time King Sean O'Donnell signing elsewhere, and hit-or-miss waiver acquisition Randy Jones sent walking, there was a fair sized gap to fill on D...
The New York City Council approved zoning and land use changes today to pave the way for a 1,190-foot tower at 15 Penn Plaza, and the owner of the Empire State Building ain't happy.James Cameron, on G4’s Attack of the Show, showing off the Cameron-Pace 3D camera rig with which he shot Avatar. Some details covered:
• This camera is called a mini beam splitter rig and is set up inverted to be hand-held.
• This rig was specifically created for the movie from two Sony cameras.
• Unlike most 3D cameras, the Pace doesn’t use two side by side cameras for 3D effects.
• Instead, it uses two cameras on the top and bottom to recreate how the 3D space will look on screen.
• This technology is known as “fusion 3D.”
• The beam splitter allows the two lenses to merge inside each other as the top camera can move side to side to change the interocular distance or change angles to control the convergence. [to control the "sweet spot" of the 3D image]
• It’s a silent and fast 9 axis motion control system.
• The rig weighs 28 lbs.
• The two cameras must be finely calibrated in order to be doing the same thing at the exact same time.
Last week, a list of the names of 69 young men in Puerto Asis, Colombia was published on Facebook. "Leave town in three days", they ominously warned, "or you will be executed." Now, three on the list are dead! That's teach people to not fear anonymous posts on the interweb!
Who's kicking out the biggest jams these days? Phish? The Dead? Dave Matthews Band? Sorry, but it's north China, with a massive traffic jam that has reached it's 10th day, and stretches for almost 60 miles. Looks like food and medicine isn't the only thing you've managed to toxify.
Thriller / fiction author James Patterson topped the list of high-paid writers, earning $70 million. The Forbes rankings were based on earnings from books, film rights, television, gaming deals and other income from June 1, 2009, through June 1, 2010. Patterson's top standing includes his latest deal to pen 17 books by the end of 2012 for an estimated $100 million, and since he writes all his novels in longhand, he better get moving. Then again, I question the quality of his stories considering that's one novel every one month and 19 days.
Wendy Lewis was caught on security cameras relieving herself on the Blackpool Cenotaph war memorial a woman branded. Shortly afterwards, she performed a sex act on a man nearby. But now, Lewis has gone on the lam before her sentencing, prompting authorities to seek out "Britain's most disgusting person", or as we would say on this side of the ocean, a reality television star.
When I was a younger, less famous M, I asked my father, a garmento, about a restaurant called "Tickets". The garment company he worked for, had a Broadway theme, so the divisions had their names derived from relevant ideas - Tickets being one of them. I wondered how there could be a restaurant with the same name without there being a conflict, and because they were basically two completely different enterprises, there was no conflict with the name. Not so much the case with Madonna's entry into the fashion business."When we researched how notes are used we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than horizontally. You tend to hold a wallet or purse vertically when searching for notes. The majority of people hand over notes vertically when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense."
Yes, he deserves credit the same way BP deserves credit for essentially being forced to clean up the mess it made. If it hadn't fucked things up so royally in the first place, there would be no need for the effort put into making things right. You don't get to claim victory when the colossal screw-up you created finally limps into history. Backward logic at its finest.
On the plus side, at least McCain didn't figure out a way to turn this into an opportunity to flirt with Snooki.
You know something, now that I think about it: taking credit for something you're supposed to have done -- where have I heard that before?
The Perseid Meteor Shower against the backdrop of the Milky Way, as seen from Joshua Tree National Park between August 12 and August 15, 2010.
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Want to have that Fernando Alonso look that says "I'm a big crybaby"? Or style that whispers "second driver" like Felipe Massa? Well wait no longer! Taking time off from their flexible front wing, Ferrari engineers designed the electric motor for this hair dryer. Even the specs are written to make it sound like one of their vehicles:BaByliss®PRO expertise and FERRARI excellence have fused to bring forth an exclusive designed appliance with exceptional performances specially constructed to maximize its airflow and by minimizing its weight and vibration in order to optimise fast drying and long lasting styling effect.
A group of biotech researchers developed the paint by knitting together carbon nanotubes with lysostaphin, an enzyme that slices open cell walls and kills them. Lysostaphin is a naturally-occurring substance that bacteria developed to combat other kinds of bacteria - a sort of organic nullifier that is also super-focused. That is, it only destroys staph bacteria, including MRSA. One hundred percent of the MRSA that came into contact with the lysostaphin paint died within two hours. Not bad results.
