an action whose time has come?  yeah. I’d say so.  for once, good for the lawyer.

 

1. If a movie catches my interest, I will rent it. This is extremely rare and far between. The few times I have seen a movie (3 times in the last 4 years) I have been dragged there and they were paid for by people other than I.
   90% of the time, the previews have shown the only good parts of the film and the advertisements are sometimes better than the show. The sound systems were designed by those people in the little loudly colored cars that you hear before you see. No mid-range, all bass, with a little token treble.
   They are trying to make it an ‘experience’ of the senses.
   I have have Dish Network with 200+ channels, however, I only watch one real set of channels including Discovery, Nat Geo, History, Military History and BBC America. On occasion, one of the Turners will show an old classic and I will turn there, but that is the limit.
   
   I’ll stop rambling now..
   Bill

   I hope she wins..

   Posted by Doctor DETH       09/09/2010  at  04:13 PM  



2. Mark my words: the People’s Republic is far too wedded to Western Capitalist money to allow this to happen to virtually any movie company save perhaps the film she sued over (Aftershook, due to its’ depiction of the rampant ineptitude of the CCP and the regime during its’ time of need), and even then I think they’ll side with the movie company because of the lengths said company went to whitewash the CCP and their reaction.

   My personal guess: if you want to meet this woman to thank her, within a month or so you’ll have to be checking pits in the Gobi desert.

   Posted by Turtler       09/10/2010  at  02:21 AM  



3. Mark my words: the People’s Republic is far too wedded to Western Capitalist money to allow this to happen to virtually any movie company save perhaps the film she sued over (Aftershook, due to its’ depiction of the rampant ineptitude of the CCP and the regime during its’ time of need), and even then I think they’ll side with the movie company because of the lengths said company went to whitewash the CCP and their reaction.

   My personal guess: if you want to meet this woman to thank her, within a month or so you’ll have to be checking pits in the Gobi desert.

   Posted by Turtler       09/10/2010  at  02:21 AM  



4. If I don’t I have a batch of them. Enough to entertain me for a lot of time.
   I agree about the learning.. I don’t have much formal education.. dropped out of the 9th grade. I learned a lot hanging around libraries.
   I get a lot of my ‘later’ education watching all the ‘educational’ channels and cruising the interwebs.
   I figure if I learn at least one new thing every day, I will never get bored. If I learn 2 things, it’s a bonus.

   Just a thought…
   Bill

   Posted by Doctor DETH       09/10/2010  at  01:19 PM  



5. It was 8 commercials in a row before the start of the craptacular “Superman Returns” that finally drove me from theatres (that I wasn’t all that thrilled with anyway). I’ve only been back once since, to see “The Dark Knight” on an IMAX screen. Now I patiently wait for a DVD or stream from Netflix. I don’t miss the $6 popcorn or the punks on their cell-phones at all.

   Posted by mojoe       09/11/2010  at  10:18 AM  



6. I like this idea!

   I’m paying to see the movie, not the ads.

   It’s been some time since the wife and I went to the movie theater, mostly because I can’t stomach the price. It has to be a special movie for me to go these days; the last movie we actually saw in a theater was ‘The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe’, the first Narnia movie. Why? Because I can almost quote the Narnia books at least as well as The Lord of the Rings. I’ve read them countless times. My wife had heard of the Narnia books, but had never read them. I wanted her to see it on the big screen, and hoped the movie followed the book.

   Movies made from books usually disappoint; this one didn’t.

   But good for her: You’re paying for the movie, not the ads.

   I know some lawyers who aren’t too busy right now… maybe we’ll attend a few movies…

   Posted by Christopher       09/11/2010  at  10:47 PM  



7. I liked watching “Educational” tv on PBS.  But they deteriorated into all Nature and Lesbians all the time, so I put PBS in the same trash can as Hollywood, CBS,ABC,and NBC.
   I don’t miss anything from Hollywood, or network tv.  I thought I was mentally ill for years, but it went away when I turned off my tv and forgot that the MSM exists.  Yes, I’m feeling muuuch better now.

   Posted by grayjohn       09/12/2010  at  10:57 AM  



8. Welcome back to the real world grayjohn!

   My wife still gets that ‘are you crazy?’ at work when she informs them that we don’t have cable TV.

   Amazing how little TV/Movies/Hollywood actually influence your life. Sure, I can’t discuss the latest movie in the theaters with my coworkers. But I can discuss who wants to raise your taxes to support people who choose to be drags on society. I can discuss the current ‘Chicken Little - sky is falling’ stuff.

   A funny thing is happening at work: they no longer talk about movies and TV shows. They’re talking about politicians who tax and spend and try to control their lives.

   The thing about movies these days is that they’ve become a not-so-subtle appendage to the politicians.

   Reminder: in 2012 the incandescent light bulb is officially banned. Stock up this year!

   Posted by Christopher       09/12/2010  at  11:29 AM  

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