Dread
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GODDDAMN YOU FIREFOX AND YOUR CONVENIENT WEB BROWSING FEATURES!!!!!!!!!
those extra exclamation points are for Yoda.
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Well in all fairness Die Hard was still decent...
Yes, but it didn't feel like a Die Hard movie because of it's rating.
well put. It felt, to me, like the version you see on television: "Yippee Ki-Ay bad guy"
Happy birthday, by the way.
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- can horror movies cause phobias (Des, this seems like the perfect topic for RD or DM.)
Clearly people are looking for movies to view on Halloween night.
Like I don't have enough to do!
:laugh:
I will use that first topic. I think I'll even do the recommended viewing thing again this year as last year it kind of changed on me halfway through.
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What are the repercussions of a writer not being in the guild?
Not being able to work professionally. Essentially, you have to qualify. Apparently animation and web content don't count. You need a body of work to be considered and a pilot isn't good enough. Funnily enough, I heard an interview with Patton Oswalt who was talking about writing comedy for one of the MTV Awards and he was hired as a Co-Producer not a writer so he wouldn't have to be paid the high WGA wages.
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I bet it is the return of Captain America!
Wow! Good guess Tim!
How did you ever come up with that?! note sarcasm...
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I agree - very good interview!! Slightly punctuated by the sounds of a crying infant, though!
Heh! I do my best podcasting amidst the weeping of children...Muah-hahahahahahahahaha!
I'm the father of two kids under two so there will be the occasionally crying in the background...
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Ok what the hell are they striking for?
Because they're fucking arseholes.
Even though I belong to one, I hate unions because they've gone so far beyond protecting the worker into using workers for their own monetary gain. My union went on illegal strike two years ago (before I was a member, thus barring me from strike pay) for a month. The contract we got after a month? Slightly worse than the one offered two weeks earlier.
Interesting tidbit from Warren Ellis:
Something interesting to me turnedup in Variety this morning. The
Writers Guild of America West, the
union for film and tv writers, has
released its strike rules. They're
in the process of negotiating their
working conditions for the next few
years with the studios. Usually,
what happens is that the WGA relies
on the Screen Actors Guild or the
Directors Guild to make headway,
and then the SAG and/or DGA sells
them out. This time around, WGA
are playing what the Yanqui call
"hardball."
The strike rules declare that writers
may not write animation or "new
media" content. This is interesting
because WGA has no jurisdiction over
animation or new media. Further,
they state that any non-union
person found writing animation or
new media during the course of a
strike will be barred from ever
joining the Guild.
For me, this is a little like a guild of
chefs not only banning me from
cooking at home, but also barring
me from ever entering a restaurant
should I be found out.
Therefore, if the WGA struck
tomorrow, and the notes on the
last CASTLEVANIA polish came next
week, in no time at all I will have gone
from the guy who delivered food to
striking firemen to a scab. Funny
old world.
I understand the WGA's need to go
in hard, and there are serious issues
to be tackled. But criminalising me
for going about my business, that
the WGA has no say over...hell, I've
written two animated films
(MINDBRIDGE, unproduced, and
CASTLEVANIA, pre-production) and a
cable tv pilot and I don't even
qualify for membership in WGA.
Bad enough some git associated
with the SF Writers of America called
me and my friends scabs for
releasing work for free on the net.
Now I'm being called out as a scab
by a union who doesn't even cover
the work that I do.
Charming.
-- W
Sounds like a great union doesn't it?
Gives a whole new meaning to "they have the money but we have the power"
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What methods did they use?
I imagine, since it lead to an arrest, either DNA, chemical fluid expulsion from fabrics (ie: finding old cleaned up blood) or digital fingerprinting. These are the only real substantial technological advances that lead to direct arrests on people they didn't have enough evidence for in the first place. As far as I know.
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The new film by Wrong Turn and Masters of Horror season 2 offering "Right to Die" Rob Schmidt, has reinvigorated police in Rochester NY to use new forensic methods to solve an old case. This lead to an arrest of a person of interest in the crimes which officially stopped in 1976.
The Alphabet Killer slayed women and dumped their bodies in towns whose name matched the name of the victim as far as the first letter is concerned (Susan = Stratford) but has gone unsolved for more than thirty years.
The film, The Alphabet Killer, is being submitted to Sundance and is expected to cause quite a bidding war between studios.
Not much more info at the link here.
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This issue will arrive in my next DCBS shipment. I'm really looking forward to it, because I want a new DC book / character to succeed.
Ditto on that.
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Director, Xavier Gens, pulled from film after his cut was too violent.
Nicholas de Toth, sawbones in charge of making Live Free or Die Hard bloodless, has been called in to chop the film from what would have been a hard R. Look for a bloodless Hitman!
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Nice one, drq!
I'll have to check it out.
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My guess: rolling out Secret Civil Invasion War II
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It says, biggest and only. It could be that they're switching inkers on Penance: Relentless.
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Just wait until Slott jumps on Amazing Spider-Man! :devil:
Yeah one comic book I can skip for two reasons!
And four creative teams on a three times monthly book? Is an extra week going to keep it from being Countdown bad? Probably not.
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Now, if you can only get rid of that Yoda guy...
By the way, Des, next week we're reviewing:
- New Excalibur #24
- Ultimate X-Men #87
- Wolverine: Origins #18
- X-Men: Die by the Sword #1
- X-Men: Emperor Vulcan #2
:youlose:
No Spider-man? No JMS? No Slott?
You ain't got nuthin!
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Bravo to the best and most honest comic book review team on them there intarwub!
Tim, gotta agree on that Loeb run of Wolvie. It stunk.
Not sure I'm so in the boat with you on Punisher, though. far more interesting things are being done in War Journal but still great reviews nonetheless. Now, if you can only get rid of that Yoda guy...
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That's why the company's keeping tabs on the resistance through Mohinder.
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I don't know if the writing team has been changed or something because not only is the plot development underwhelming, the dialogue is pedestrian. Nothing like last year.
Thing to remember when illegally in a country and about to pass into another: don't tell a police officer your plans...
Not to mention the cop: Thees is not a flea market, mang. I won't be bribed for less than 2500 pesos!
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Am I the only one sooooo not interested anymore?
I'd stop watching to free up an hour but then I'm sure the old lady would have me fill it with Dancing with the Stars or some such nonsense...
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Wow... that episode was beyond bad!
And there was a huge mistake in it. It said DL died in 2007, but the last episode of the first season (where he died) took place in November of 2006.
Maybe it was a slow and painful death...
What happened in the last 15 minutes? I fell asleep. Maybe that shows how interested I am in this season so far...
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It was on the last CR I recorded, which I *think* is episode #129. Cripes, I should get on another now we're in the 160s!!
I'll have to go back and listen.
Happy Birthday Jack Fetch!
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I've said it before but I couldn't resist the official thread: Happy Birthday.
and Deniro's not playing Thor...he's Donald Blake.