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FAIL THREAD!!!!

AUTO XX, you'd make a good move critic :)

People around me are always bothering with such tiny details and unknowingly, ruin the movie experience for themselves.

I just watched Avatar. Third time :) I know how people were complaining that during last fight, arrows were piercing the windshields of pilots, whereas an hour ago when there were shooing Hometree they did not.

That's such a tiny detail, for which I can give counter arguement:
In first encounter, they were firing from the ground, where in second one they were coming down with Ikrans and thus, providing much more force to the arrow blah blah blah...

One should always watch a movie, as we say, it , watch it as it is = don't bother yourself and other with technicalities that are totally irrelevant.
Point is that they fought, and how that battle went is what matters.

Same with that CSI, the guy was shining a laser at the plane and caused an accident. That's what the audience needs to know. For all I care they could have made a half-hour tuutorial on how does a green laser work, but that's not the point.

You're giving yourself trouble over technicalities and ruin the movie for yourself. Don't do that. Mind the point that the movie writer is trying to tell you, that's what matters.

EDIT - Oh, @ Proto and wannaburn : :crackup:
 





Eudaimonium, what you describe is called "suspension of disbelief", and many
movies require some good amount of that to be enjoyed.

But sometimes you have to try too hard to suspend your disbelief and that
can ruin a movie. It didn't ruin Avatar for me though.
 
wannaburn said:
The only torrent I could find for this with a decent amount of 'seeders'
was a Swedish sub version..

Cant remove them as they are edited into the video..

On a positive note, you can learn how to say 'this is a green diode laser'
in Swedish :beer:
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Ah. Well, thanks for the language lesson as well then. :beer:
 
I see where you're going with this, Anselm, I'mma do more research on that topic.

Avatar is the best move I watched. Evar. Stole the throne from The Rock.

If suspending your disbelief must be so hard to watch a movie it gets ruined, you're either
a) A walking encyclopedia with every fact known to man in your head ready to recall
b) Watching Uwe Boll's movie.

Unless the movie is really bad, I see no reason to do a lot of suspension. But, bad movies don't tend to get millions of viewers, like CSI, or more than 3 billion $US in total income, as Avatar did.
 
Avatar didnt do much for me. Effects were top notch, but the story has been told 100 before. I like movies that make me think, and you really didnt have to do any thinking with Avatar because you already knew the ending, and what to expect.
 
I feel the same way, T_J. There was an SNL episode devoted to it, and it had Sigourney Weaver having a dinner party with her husband and another couple, she was constantly reading online comments on the movie, and she starts crying at one point and says "*someone's name* said it's like *sobbing loudly* Pocahontas with big blue people!" It expresses my feelings for the movie perfectly. I thought it was an alright movie, good effects but the story didn't wow me all that much.
 
Pocahontas, Dances with wolves, and a boatload of others. I was hoping they were going to throw in twist in the end, but it followed straight through. Must of been nice for the kids that dont have that much movie experience.
 
It is just a piss off that CSI is jumping on the bandwagon and spreading more false propaganda about the dangers of lasers.
I REALLY don't like the show though, seems to make everyone think they could commit a crime and get away with it :crackup:
The main dude's one liners make me want to kick him in the nuts, he's like that dad on the series 24.
They both look like they would cry if you slapped them. :rolleyes:
 
I wouldnt say bandwagon.. if anything they helped to get it going..

This particular episode is 2005, that was actually the same year I got my first
leadlight greenie.. ($370. US for modded 7mW LeadLight from Z-Bolt)

The trend had started to become an issue around 2004/2005 according to wiki..




"Until the early 1990s, laser and bright light aviation incidents were sporadic. In the U.S., NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System showed only one or two incidents per year.[33] The SAE G-10T subcommittee began meeting around 1993 as the number of incidents grew. Almost all of the incidents were known or suspected to be due to outdoor laser displays. Almost all of the concern was over potential eye damage; at the time visual effects were felt to be a minor consequence.

In late 1995, a number of illumination incidents occurred in Las Vegas due to new outdoor laser displays. Although the displays had been approved by the FDA as eye-safe for their airport proximity, no one had realized that the glare/distraction hazard would adversely affect pilots. In December 1995 the FDA issued an emergency order shutting down the Las Vegas shows.

Within the SAE G-10T subcommittee, there was some consideration about cutting back or banning laser shows. However, it became apparent that there were a large number of non-entertainment laser users as well. The focus shifted to control of known laser users, whether shows or industry/research. New policies and procedures were developed, such as the FAA 7200 Chapter 29, and Advisory Circular 70-1. Although incidents continued to occur (from January 1996 to July 1999, the FAA's Western-Pacific Region identified more than 150 incidents in which low-flying aircraft were illuminated by lasers)[1], the situation seemed under control.

Then in late 2004 and early 2005, came a significant increase in reported incidents linked to laser pointers. The wave of incidents may have been triggered in part by "copycats" who read press accounts of laser pointer incidents. In one case, David Banach of New Jersey was charged under federal Patriot Act anti-terrorism laws, after he allegedly shone a laser pointer at aircraft.[34]

Responding to the incidents, the Congressional Research Service issued a study on the laser "threat to aviation safety and security."[18] Because there was no federal law specifically banning deliberate laser illumination of aircraft, Congressman Ric Keller introduced H.R. 1400, the "Securing Airplane Cockpits Against Lasers Act of 2005."[35] The bill was passed by the U.S. House and Senate, but did not go to conference and thus did not become law.[36] In 2007, Keller re-introduced the bill as H.R. 1615. Although passed by the House in May 2007, it was not acted on by the Senate before the end of the 110th Congress and never became law.[37]

On March 28, 2008, a "coordinated attack" took place using four green laser pointers aimed at six aircraft landing at the Sydney (New South Wales) Australia airport.[38][39] As a result of this attack plus others, a law was proposed in mid-April 2008 in NSW to ban possession of handheld lasers, even "harmless classroom pointers".[40][41] The Australian state of Victoria has reportedly had a similar ban since 1998, but press reports state that it is easy to buy lasers without a permit.[42]

On February 22, 2009, a dozen planes were targeted with green laser beams at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.[43] An FAA spokeswoman said there were 148 laser attacks on aircraft in the U.S. from January 1, 2009 to February 23, 2009.[44]"


source : Lasers and aviation safety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


AUTO XX said:
It is just a piss off that CSI is jumping on the bandwagon and spreading more false propaganda about the dangers of lasers.
I REALLY don't like the show though, seems to make everyone think they could commit a crime and get away with it :crackup:
The main dude's one liners make me want to kick him in the nuts, he's like that dad on the series 24.
They both look like they would cry if you slapped them. :rolleyes:
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Tech_Junkie said:
Avatar didnt do much for me. Effects were top notch, but the story has been told 100 before. I like movies that make me think, and you really didnt have to do any thinking with Avatar because you already knew the ending, and what to expect.
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Can't help but agree here,

Though I look on it a little different. I mean, there's only so much more original stories to be told by movies. Every single scenario I can possibly think of and it's variations are already told in the movies 100 times each. So instead of looking only on the story (not saying it's bad, it's really good if you ask me), I look at the way the story is told. Avatar was epic grand storytelling.

Movies that make you think? In what way? Somewhat the first one to come to mind is The Cube, then Deja Vú (with Densel Washington).

On-topic,
There's this guy on Xfire who totally does not care for any (ANY!!) Rules of polite written communication:
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Ehhh :confused:
 
Eudaimonium i think you FAILED to agknowledge the fact most of us have no idea what you just posted :D
 
TTerbo said:
Eudaimonium i think you FAILED to agknowledge the fact most of us have no idea what you just posted :D
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But, this after all is a FAIL thread, so that cannot be considered a fail ..... but in this case, it must not be here, and this can be considerd a fail ..... but in this case, it can be allowed here, and .....

AAARGH, need caffeine ..... BRB .....

(j/k :p :D)
 
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