Anyone else flash on this? “I’m not dead yet!”

They’re friggin’ desperate for ideas in Hollywood any more, aren’t they? First Rampage, now Duke Nukem...

Travelled with son from when he was 8 months old. He always loved going to the airport to see the grands. Never had a problem - but we didn’t much tolerate him acting out in public, either.

Well, you did an incredible job supporting a tissue-paper thin plot, and for that I honestly salute you. But I think you’re looking at it from the work done on it - and I’m looking at the overall movie and finding it unimpressive because of the plot holes. (Which I thought I was parodying in the little bit above,…

The ART is impressive, and incredible - but man, when you’re using it to cover up that your plot sucks ass with friggin’ ‘ghost sharks’, there’s something seriously wrong with the creative department.

I agree. Practical effects used to ‘wow’ - but with CGI, you kinda go “Yep. Okay.”

I’ve got a LOT of respect for the folks who do the work, and the techniques. What I DON’T have respect for are the fuckheads who seem to think that a lousy, shopworn plot can be saved by throwing massive amounts of CGI at it. Which seems to be the norm for the POTC franchise.

Years back I subscribed to Cinefx magazine. I am amazed at the technology, I’m amazed at what it can do.

Amazing what you can do with CGI, isn’t it?

Much as I hate to say it - the more you know about how these effects are done, the less impressive they are.

‘Dark Sun’ is excellent - I’d really recommend it. His third book in the ‘series’, ‘Twilight of the Bombs’ is very well written... but his conclusions and projections (seeing the book essentially stops in ‘08) are pretty much off the mark to my thinking.

Everything has a season. War movies, cowboy movies, musicals, cop movies, grim dystopias, detective movies, they come, they go.

“Overnight trips NOT in the sleeper car are torture”

And I... I would grin at it and say... “You’re next!”

Everyone commenting negatively seems to think that the biological mechanisms of these various diseases are so clear and open that OF COURSE it should be a simple and easy thing to find something that works.

If you don’t have anything that seems to be working, and you don’t have any promising pathways forward - what do you want them to do? Just start throwing random compounds at the problem and hope to see some sort of success?

That’s interesting. I’ve been holding on to my HTC One M8 because (A) got the thing set up how I want it and (B) haven’t seen anything yet that’s enough of an improvement to warrant swapping over.

“Porg! Now with Miticlorian seasoning!”

It takes a lot of people, facilities, regulatory compliance and testing. None of that is free, and it’s all got to be paid for. Plus, they have to pay the hospitals for the testing, because the hospitals have people who manage the paperwork, pharmacies (and pharmacists) who store, dispense, and inventory the drugs and…

Damn - that lets me out. :(