What problem did you have with the origin story? Besides Kirk getting marooned on the exact planet Scotty was on and the transparently plot driven Kirk/Spock/Uhura triangle, I thought it worked all right. For some it was random like Chekov and Sulu, for some it was natural alignment like Kirk and Bones being friends…

That's a fair point, but comic book heros have more of a mythology associated with them. Reusing and re imaging villains comes down to it being unrealistic to create a new villain every month.

dumb kids are a result of poor parenting and insufficient education. Which has little to do with their taste in movies.

I like when science fiction is based on actual science, or at least believable science. Like how a spaceship would actually behave in space or how long it would really take to get to other solar systems/galaxies. Whether or not this fancy future tech is even possible. Some things you can say, 'well we just haven't…

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That's not really the same, though. It's nice to have a playlist going on random, and then one song comes up and it reminds you of another song, so you just want to queue it up to play next, then go back to random again. You couldn't do that with itunes before, which is why I always stuck with winamp even after i got…

I find it impossible to take Tom Cruise seriously anymore. Every performance he gives reminds me of either his Oprah meltdown or the Scientology video. The dudes gotta be acting like 24/7 or something. Just playing Tom Cruise.

yeah, it was foolish to try to communicate with a person as diluted as you. This has been great, though, thanks.

"I mean, if your not going to accept that 3D is a horrible failure pushed on people who don't want it then why would anything else you say have merit?"

You're going to tell me what my point was now, son? I never said 3D was doing well. I simply said they wouldn't still be making them at double the cost if it didn't sell tickets. And I don't recall you proving shit to say otherwise. I didn't see any facts or figures in any of your posts here. Just a bunch of single…

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I think the astronauts who got lost on the way to Mars in the first one come back to find humans scavenging and hiding from the apes. Maybe some remaining armed forces have regular conflicts with the apes. Ceaser gets into a power struggle with the scarred up ape who kind of challenged him in the first one a little…

The movie was definitely strong enough on it's own, but it's like an origin story. You don't just want to know how the super hero came into be, you wanna see them kick ass too.

With Stereoscopic movies I was referring to the doubled cost of filming it out. It takes two reels to play a 3D movie in theaters, regardless of whether it's a post conversion or a two camera rig. Even with digital projectors becoming more common, they still need to film movies out, and film is still crazy expensive.…

If widescreen wasn't complained about there never would have been an option for full screen dvds. I knew plenty of people who stuck with full screen because they didn't like the black bars. This was before flat screens were cheap, maybe you were too young to remember that? And if 3D was 'roundly rejected' they…

It's a perfectly valid comparison, because what people are comparing there is the immediate outrage that people have for new techniques that change what they're used to seeing. It happened with sound, color, 16:9 aspect ratio, 3D, imax, and now with higher framerate.

By that logic your TV should still be a 4:3 aspect ratio

My favorite thing about the 24 vs 48 argument is the general ignorance of film history that most people display. I remember people outright hating 'widescreen' releases before 16:9 was the standard tv ratio. Now, 'full frame' releases are a joke. Since the first 3D movie, stereoscopic was labeled a gimmick (which it…

What are you basing that on? Have you seen a 3d movie at 48fps?

Well. I obviously have no direct experience with this, but I would think the cameras themselves aren't different, it's just the frame rate that they're filming at. So regardless of the frame rate, the individual frames would look the same, cutting it down to 24 would only affect the motion and fluidity of the film,…