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| JK1701 | Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:28 am Post #181 |
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Exactly my point. All of tv these days does that, with very few exceptions. |
Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It's very cold.......in spaaaace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| VioletCloud | Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:31 am Post #182 |
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Water Tribe!
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Once when a local station was particularly bad.. they actually stopped and gave a definition to a very simple word...I went on there face book page and told them what I thought. bad move. Should have written the station directly... FB is probably some intern.. they claim its the news castors... writing on the page.. but meh.. they cant really do anything about it either.. they just read the cards |
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| JK1701 | Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:35 am Post #183 |
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Hahaha They're reading their Facebook page going "Look at the smarty pants? Knows what that big word means! We'll just tell them it's the newscasters and have done with it." |
Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It's very cold.......in spaaaace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| wissaboo | Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:35 pm Post #184 |
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I think newspapers have always been aimed at a grade 5 reading comprehension havn't they? |
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| Mojochi | Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:44 pm Post #185 |
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There have been easy games shows throughout all of tv history, ones where you could actually win much more money than on Jeopardy, but the thing that made Jeopardy significant was that it WASN'T easy, & a contestant had to have as diverse an educational background as possible, just to field the potential categories spanning, politics, history, math, literature, art, current events, & occasionally entertainment Without the level of difficulty, Jeopardy is just "Who wants to be a thousandaire?" It's discouraging |
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| JK1701 | Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:30 pm Post #186 |
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Agreed. I used to watch a lot of Jeopardy. It's kind of gone down hill. |
Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It's very cold.......in spaaaace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| Mojochi | Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:45 pm Post #187 |
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3 out of 4 Rusty Griswolds went on to notable success, whereas only one out of four Audrey Griswolds can claim the same |
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| JK1701 | Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:42 am Post #188 |
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Which Audrey was successful? |
Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It's very cold.......in spaaaace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| AWOLangel | Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:36 pm Post #189 |
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it depends on what your definition of "successful" is. if you go imdb & click on any of their names most have credits up to at least the 2000s. the kids from european vacation don't have anything after the mid-1990s or thereabouts. |
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| Mojochi | Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:35 pm Post #190 |
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Academy Award Nominee Juliette Lewis who was in X-mas Vacation, alongside Jonathan Galecki who went onto Rosanne & Big Bang Theory The other Rustys were Anthony Michael Hall, of "The Dead Zone" , "Weird Science", & "Pretty in Pink", Ethan Embry from "That Thing You Do" & "Empire Records", & the almost unknown Jason Lively who hasn't acted in anything in almost 20 years The other Audreys Dana Barron & Dana Hill were relegated to mostly one off tv appearances. Dana Hill hasn't done anything since the early 90s either. The other Audrey is a fairly successful tv actress, Marisol Nichols, who was probably most noted for being on "24" Edit: Oh! Dana Hill died in '96 at age 32. I guess that would explain the career slump since then |
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| AWOLangel | Wed Dec 19, 2012 6:44 pm Post #191 |
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yes it would. there's an old navy commercial with a couple of the actors that were the kids as well as the parents from those movies |
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln | |
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| Mojochi | Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:18 pm Post #192 |
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That's what spawned my original random entertainment thought |
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| AWOLangel | Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:21 pm Post #193 |
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i suspected. |
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln | |
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| JK1701 | Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:06 am Post #194 |
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Ah, ok then. I knew Anthony Michael Hall, Juliette Lewis, and Jonathan Galecki, but not the others, which I guess is because they vanished into relative obscurity. And yes, death would have a way of causing one's career to, um, "slump".
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Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It's very cold.......in spaaaace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| JK1701 | Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:59 pm Post #195 |
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Why is it that people think that it's ridiculous to put products in movies? Ok, I grant you, most of the time when you see someone chug down a Dr. Pepper in a movie, it's because that company paid to have it placed out there prominently for the advertising. My thing is #1-So what? They're in business to make money, whuch means advertising, which means any way possible or necessary. No big deal. #2-What else are they gonna do? Make up new product names for everything or just block out the name on the box like they do on tv? How ridiculous would that be? What made me think of this was an article I was reading where this guy was griping about kids in Paranormal Activity 4 being all amazed by something with an Xbox Kinect and acting like it was all cool and how that was just a shameless plug that pulled any "savvy" viewer right out of the movie with a groan. Really? It pulled you out of the movie to see kids (he didn't specify ages, but it sounded like little kids) being fascinated with something just like they would in real life by something that *gasp* exists in real life and that *gasp* people actually do have? I'm guessing he would have liked it better if they had re-named it a Z-Square Connection system or something like that, which is more distracting to me than just putting actual products in the movies. A movie has never lost me over something as stupid as that. Am I alone in this? |
Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It's very cold.......in spaaaace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| Mojochi | Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:41 pm Post #196 |
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I actually like it when a movie can use product placement in a creative way, a way that reflects it's place in the world Two examples that come to mind... In the post-apocalyptic movie "The Book Of Eli" Denzel Washington washes himself with moist handiwipes... bearing the logo of KFC. That's just plain brilliant product placement that actually adds to the fabric of the film, & isn't just there for the sake of advertising, which I agree can be distracting & annoying. He also totes around an ipod, which is actually the catalyst to all the conflict, because needing to get it charged is the only reason he went into the town Of course, the greatest example in my mind is how Wilson Sporting Goods got maybe the biggest plug ever by having one of their volleyballs be an actual character in "Castaway", not to mention the endless promoting of Fed-Ex whom the main character worked for These are movies that are primarily set in settings that do not offer a lot of room for product placement, & yet they managed it skillfully. For that reason, it does bug me that lots of movies are so hamfisted about it, like the Budweiser plug in NuTrek |
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| JK1701 | Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:14 pm Post #197 |
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Ok, I guess it can be overly obvious sometimes, but even in the Star Trek movie, if you're talking about when Uhura was ordering at the bar, why is that such a bother? She's in a bar, ordering a beer. Granted, they probably should have made up something for a Star Trek movie, but if they weren't, why not use something like that? |
Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It's very cold.......in spaaaace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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| Mojochi | Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:15 pm Post #198 |
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Well, for me, it was just overt & unflattering to the film. Almost as if the whole scene was written for the purpose of the plug. As opposed to say, when Scotty talks into the mouse of an Apple computer, which is just as big a plug, without being so bluntly distracting. Couple that with the fact that the entire engineering section of the NuTrek Enterprise was shot in a Bud brewery, & it was a bit too much for me, I'm afraid above all else, movies are supposed to have some kind of artistic merit, & it does derail the investment of the viewer (some) if they are smacked in the head with an advertising plug written into the dialog like that, as if the financial advisers had a seat at the table when the script was written |
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| AWOLangel | Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:31 pm Post #199 |
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there's a documentary called the greatest movie ever sold (by the guy who did super-size me) about product placement in tv shows & movies. i have yet to see if. but if i recall, he talked toa guy from some group (consumer group, maybe?) that wants a pop-up thing every time a product is shown in a movie on on tv saying: this is an advertisement. like we don't know that it most likely is |
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| Mojochi | Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:01 pm Post #200 |
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That would be more distracting than the ad placement itself, in most cases |
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