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Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest!
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Mind your manners, Coluan or i will go to Tenazor-4 and kidnap your damn monkey - and make you pay ME to send it away again! Heh Heh Heh...
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I'd go with joining the FTAA if it were me. The problem with being the big fish is that the smaller fish are generally looking for a way to dethrone you.
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Sounds as if this FTAA biz is hot stuff...what is it, exactly?
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Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, now on indefinite hold.
Trouble for Brazil was they always wanted it both ways. They wanted a united front against the US but always in the context of being first amongst equals in South America.
The other South Americans never could have it this way.
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Speaking of "Brazil", has anyone seen Terry Gilliam's new movie, "The Brothers Grimm"? Most of the reviews I've read haven't been particularly positive, but I'm curious about it.
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feelin' hot hot hot
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Ooh! Ooh! I wanna see that movie!! Is it out already? Must go soon...
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I've never put much stock in what reviewers say. Bunch of pseudo intellectuals who couldn't be real journalists.
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Could the movie distributors "bribe" the reviewers into giving their pet projects a good rating, even tho it might be construed as being a tad unethical?
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I think one of the studios just got caught making up a reviewer and giving themselves good reviews. Big fine in the States over it. Edit: It was Sony http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4741259.stm
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I think it's generally a good bet that a movie produced by a major studio is likely to get better reviews in newspapers/magazines owned by the same parent company as the studio.
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Inherent conflict of interest, but with the concentration of ownership these days it's not likely to get better anytime soon.
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Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest!
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Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: I think it's generally a good bet that a movie produced by a major studio is likely to get better reviews in newspapers/magazines owned by the same parent company as the studio. Even if they had irreutable proof that the movie is crap?
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I've often wondered if Entertainment Weekly (Time-Warner) charged an internal transfer price to Warner Brothers pictures for pages used for articles on crap WB movies.
Obviously the accountants do charge for "house ads" right. Do anti-trust laws allow the ITP to be different than the rate charged to an outside buyer?
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What about the poor slobs who 'burn movies they were told were good, but by the time they see just how long the movie drags BEFORE the credits start to roll, is it still a case of 'caveat emptor' on a non-refundable download?
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From a managerial accounting point of view billing a film's article in EW as advertising makes sense because there is an opportunity cost of putting a different movie/TV show on the cover or in the article.
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feelin' hot hot hot
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Dude, no one cares about a managerial accounting point of view. Not even managerial accountants...
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But the P & Ls NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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Oh, Shut Up!
Truth and Justice shall Prevail! (Yak, Yak, Sprocking Yak...)
Truth and Justice shall Prevail! (Just as soon as the Check Clears!)
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Never!
Relativism and Vengence shall Prevail (CP)
(You know it to be true.)
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Sentient, You... Just Shut Up!
Truth and Justice shall Prevail! (I don't even know what Relativism is...)
Truth and Justice shall Prevail! (Just as soon as the Check Clears!)
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feelin' hot hot hot
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You and me both Ranger man.
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If i say something - will i be told to shut up, too???
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Shut up!
Well you asked for that. Didn't you?
Hic!
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I'll not yield this thread because of verbal intimidation.
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