Not really useful as so much as just interesting. I get the feeling that film studios aren't even filling up the 50GB's that is provided to them with current generation disks what are they going to do with 4x the space? ...and if that wasn't enough supposedly a 1TB (1000GB's) is ontrack for 2013.
What this really does is provide "options". Movie piracy is so prevelant because what is provided currently by the film studios is easily copied and distributed. If 400GB's of high def interactive goodness was provided with every purchase of a blu-ray movie it would be difficult to distribute all of that.
Also what does this mean for Sony's Playstation 3. Metal Gear Solid 4 was said to use every bit of space on the blu-ray disks. Can we expect more epic games that would approach the current or even future 400GB barrier? Or is that just too much work for the game studios for too little return?
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Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The Watchmen movie is going to suck...trust me
Have you read the graphic novel? The graphic novel appeared on Time's list of the top 100 English-language novels! That is a huge acheivement. Additionally is the only graphic novel to achieve a Hugo Award. Saddly when I read this novel of novels I was seriously disapointed.
What makes The Watchmen book so special? Well this is the first comic book where character development was put before the special powers and super tights! ...and that might be the problem with it for me. I'm a huge fan of character development. I beleive great characters are defined by their faults not their strengths. However, with The Watchmen all of these characters have too many faults and too few strengths.
*Spoilers*
Throughout the story you mainly follow Rorschach which is easily the best character with out twistedly fucked up he is, and nite-owl who is clearly a batman rip off to the extreme. Every characters seems to dwell in the grey area, dont get me wrong I realize all of us do in real life. ...but these guys are hanging out in that grey area that is getting a little black. Nite-Owl is banging booty with another super-hero's wife. Rorschach has no problem killing people in cold blood however most of the time he simply assaults them to an inch of their life.
Actually of all these super-hero's there is only one, "Dr. Manhattan" who can seemingly do anything and everything, yet does really nothing.
The super-villian turns out to be a super-hero who decided that he needed to become a villian to give the others purpose. I know i'm paraphraseing here, but honestly that is the short and skinny of it all.
This is why I think the movie is going to be terrible. The previews make one assume they are watching the standard super-hero movie. ...but this is far from it. There will be no superpowers going on. There will be no clearly defined evil until you find out at the very end that one of the good guys when bad. ...and none of the characters are really "likeable" since they are all so seriously screwed up.
I'll be passing on this movie.
What makes The Watchmen book so special? Well this is the first comic book where character development was put before the special powers and super tights! ...and that might be the problem with it for me. I'm a huge fan of character development. I beleive great characters are defined by their faults not their strengths. However, with The Watchmen all of these characters have too many faults and too few strengths.
*Spoilers*
Throughout the story you mainly follow Rorschach which is easily the best character with out twistedly fucked up he is, and nite-owl who is clearly a batman rip off to the extreme. Every characters seems to dwell in the grey area, dont get me wrong I realize all of us do in real life. ...but these guys are hanging out in that grey area that is getting a little black. Nite-Owl is banging booty with another super-hero's wife. Rorschach has no problem killing people in cold blood however most of the time he simply assaults them to an inch of their life.
Actually of all these super-hero's there is only one, "Dr. Manhattan" who can seemingly do anything and everything, yet does really nothing.
The super-villian turns out to be a super-hero who decided that he needed to become a villian to give the others purpose. I know i'm paraphraseing here, but honestly that is the short and skinny of it all.
This is why I think the movie is going to be terrible. The previews make one assume they are watching the standard super-hero movie. ...but this is far from it. There will be no superpowers going on. There will be no clearly defined evil until you find out at the very end that one of the good guys when bad. ...and none of the characters are really "likeable" since they are all so seriously screwed up.
I'll be passing on this movie.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Batman and 007 rumors
The new Batman movie is set to debut and it looks like we may be in for a treat when it comes to the previews. It is rumored that were going to see a preview for Christian Bale's new film Terminator: Salvation. Yes if you didn't already know he'll be playing John Connor in a new trilogy continuing where T3 left off.
As for 007 it would appear that the producers haven't nailed down an opening song yet for the movie. They've apparently been talking to everyone and no one seems to fit the movie. One name that pops up is Annie Lennox, who would do an excellent bond intro. She has the kind of classiness that the bond films deserve. Perhaps this has been their problem as most pop stars try and create a sex/party image, and that is most definitely not what 007 is all about.
As for 007 it would appear that the producers haven't nailed down an opening song yet for the movie. They've apparently been talking to everyone and no one seems to fit the movie. One name that pops up is Annie Lennox, who would do an excellent bond intro. She has the kind of classiness that the bond films deserve. Perhaps this has been their problem as most pop stars try and create a sex/party image, and that is most definitely not what 007 is all about.
Monday, June 30, 2008
HTPC on the cheap
HTPC (stands for Home Theatre PC), basically you can create a mp3, movie, tivo, bittorrent server that you can then run to any tv/computer in the house for cheap. I'm looking into doing this for myself.
First and foremost is the case for the little guy. I wanted something that I could fit in my entertainment cabinet that didn't look like a computer. A quick look at Newegg and I discovered tons of cases for cheap, some not so much. It looks like you get what you pay for, like this little gem.
Next step will be to gut out your old PC that is taking up space in your closet and install it in your newly bought case. Then you need to install an O/S and all the software you'll be using. Bit-tech.net has an excellent article on installing Xubuntu (Linux) and the software needed. After reading it i'm convinced its so easy my mother could do it, and best of all its free!
Since I have a PS3 I'll be installing a "Media Server", just google it and you'll find it online, so my PS3 can read the mp3's and movies I have on my server.
Honestly i'm a bit jazzed up about this, just need to figure a cool way to turn on the unit remotely (i'm sure the higher end cases can have that handled) and then I think i'll have a nice addition to my entertainment center.
First and foremost is the case for the little guy. I wanted something that I could fit in my entertainment cabinet that didn't look like a computer. A quick look at Newegg and I discovered tons of cases for cheap, some not so much. It looks like you get what you pay for, like this little gem.
Next step will be to gut out your old PC that is taking up space in your closet and install it in your newly bought case. Then you need to install an O/S and all the software you'll be using. Bit-tech.net has an excellent article on installing Xubuntu (Linux) and the software needed. After reading it i'm convinced its so easy my mother could do it, and best of all its free!
Since I have a PS3 I'll be installing a "Media Server", just google it and you'll find it online, so my PS3 can read the mp3's and movies I have on my server.
Honestly i'm a bit jazzed up about this, just need to figure a cool way to turn on the unit remotely (i'm sure the higher end cases can have that handled) and then I think i'll have a nice addition to my entertainment center.
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