Recent content by Andrew Priest

Well, Lucas could always decide to switch the numbering of Star Wars movies from integer to floating point. ;)

V'Ger. First off, unlike many other large vessels V'Ger is entirely self sufficient and sentient. Thus it can run and maintain itself - no need for the hassles of a huge crew. Certainly it's powerful enough to protect me from any harm, and the vast store of knowledge would make it the perfect...

Tron 2.0 was a game developed my Monolith. Pretty good one too, and it perfectly captured the look and feel of the movie. Even had Bruce Boxleitner as a cameo playing Alan Bradley - or the voice thereof.

Well, I don't get any TV, and cable isn't available here at all. Still, I'll admit that as my DVD collection grew and I got into TV shows on DVD, not to mention rental by mail, my desire to purchase a satellite system declined.

I have never walked out on a movie, though I've failed to watch one or two on video. I suppose that part of the reason comes from the heightened care one has picking movies when it takes 2 hours driving and $20 gas in order to see one. If I'm going to drive into Castlegar in order to watch a...

Ah, Magneto. I'd Argue the prison didn't change him much at all. The Magneto that issued the order to kill all human life was the same Magneto that tried to turn the world leaders into mutants. Neither action was one born of hate or intolerance but was simply the act of pure reason unhindered by...

Perhaps I'm missing something, but how hard can it possibly be to simply obscure or otherwise edit out the watermark using some decent editing software? Considering how technically proficient some of the pirating groups have shown themselves to be I can't imagine that would be hard. As for...

Good question; I had to think about that a bit. First off without air there can be no shockwaves. A chemical explosive works basically by rapidly expanding. Pressure against the air produces the shockwave. Without the air all the energy would instead be in the shrapnel. Also, without air...

Basically since sound is a wave propagated through a medium, and space has no medium at all, there can be no transmission of sound through space. Now sound being generated by a ship could certainly be heard on that ship as the sound propagates through the metal, air, and other materials of the...

I'll admit I'm really looking forward to this new Mary Poppins release. The old Gold Edition really isn't very exciting, and the clip holding the DVD in my copy is even damaged. It's about time a good version of it comes out.

What about The Shawshank Redemption? Are you saying it wasn't a good movie? After all, it did even worse in the theater than Fight Club did. Box office numbers are hardly a measure of quality.

Oddly it took forever for the movie to become available at my Wal-Mart - a couple months after it came out. But now they have plenty of copies. So I have no idea. Obviously going with Amazon.ca or Futureshop would be an option. Futureshop even has free shipping while with Amazon you have to...

You seem to have entirely missed my point. All those things make films look and sound better. It makes them seem more real. But that's beside the point because films don't offer reality. Look, in order to create a literal depiction of a trip to Alaska you would have to recreate everything...

I don't believe the issue has anything to do with the definition of art itself. Imitating one medium in another medium isn't more or less artistic. But it does beg the question of why choose one medium over another in the first place. As you noted live action photography is not the actual...

Heh. And yet is seems appropriate considering everything. It's not like this is just any fantasy series being made into a movie.