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Posted: 04 April 2006 at 2:22pm |
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why are the movies these days soo nonsense and outright stooopid!!
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Posted: 04 April 2006 at 2:52pm |
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why are the movies these days soo nonsense and outright stooopid!!
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Because the target the general public and need to stoop to that level.
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Posted: 04 April 2006 at 2:56pm |
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in the movie "the core" they show a really nerdy hacker dialing number on a cell phone throught a paper whistle.. for god sake.. ok now i kmow there had been a phreaker in the past who used whistles to dial numbers at public phones but today cell phones are beyond the paper whistle technology for hacking..
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Posted: 04 April 2006 at 10:16pm |
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This does not matter to the normal viewer. They want to portrait to the normal guy who knows squad about hacking how "cool" he is. Most of those movies show applications e.g. email clients that I would love to have if they actually worked like that. But they just dumb it down for the normal viewer so it looks like Tom Cruise is using some super-duper app.
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Posted: 04 April 2006 at 11:00pm |
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The whistling thing only worked on copper phone lines that have support for analog technology. Cell phones only use digital technology.
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Posted: 04 April 2006 at 11:02pm |
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I don't mind the 'high-fantasy" aspect with totally unreal things like those. It's just a story after all.
What is poor is that the stories themselves are based on, "oh, we need
another explosion... let's blow up a car. Oh, and we need a hot chick
with big boobs. Let's have a beach bikini scene..." Much of it without
any reason.
I find there are too many sex scenes in most movies - they don't need
them. Directors would do well to study their Alfred Hitchcock a bit
more. He terrified audiences with shadows and chocolate syrup.
Then again, special FX aren't a substitute for a good story. The Blair Witch Project proved that.
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Posted: 05 April 2006 at 11:45am |
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Handyman man?
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Posted: 05 April 2006 at 1:31pm |
Bluefrog wrote:
I don't mind the 'high-fantasy" aspect with totally unreal things like those. It's just a story after all.
What is poor is that the stories themselves are based on, "oh, we need
another explosion... let's blow up a car. Oh, and we need a hot chick
with big boobs. Let's have a beach bikini scene..." Much of it without
any reason.
I find there are too many sex scenes in most movies - they don't need
them. Directors would do well to study their Alfred Hitchcock a bit
more. He terrified audiences with shadows and chocolate syrup.
Then again, special FX aren't a substitute for a good story. The Blair Witch Project proved that.
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am not into 'scary movies' as its just kinda boring, to me anyway it the storylines of sum teenagers travelin down a road in the middle of nowhere then come across a mass-murder seem a bit 'played out' and this thread is funny, as ive been thinkin lately that movies suck and ive been thinkin that film writers think up stuff like how many explosions they need etc and what special effects they want to have, then write a story so the FXs work, but maybe i just misunderstood movies, but i thought that FXs was ment to enhanse the storyline, not the storyline enhanse the FXs  i blame The Matrix 
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