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Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666678 09/05/05 07:16 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia legionadventureman Wanderer legionadventureman Wanderer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia 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...

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666679 09/05/05 07:23 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,395 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,395 Liberty City 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.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666680 09/05/05 07:27 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia legionadventureman Wanderer legionadventureman Wanderer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia Sounds as if this FTAA biz is hot stuff...what is it, exactly?

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666681 09/05/05 07:30 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada 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.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666682 09/05/05 08:20 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,395 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,395 Liberty City 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.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666683 09/05/05 08:26 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,083 NorCal Caliente feelin' hot hot hot Caliente feelin' hot hot hot Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,083 NorCal Ooh! Ooh! I wanna see that movie!! Is it out already? Must go soon...

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666684 09/05/05 08:30 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada I've never put much stock in what reviewers say. Bunch of pseudo intellectuals who couldn't be real journalists.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666685 09/05/05 08:33 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia legionadventureman Wanderer legionadventureman Wanderer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia 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?

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666686 09/05/05 08:36 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada 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

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666687 09/05/05 08:39 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,395 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,395 Liberty City 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.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666688 09/05/05 08:40 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Inherent conflict of interest, but with the concentration of ownership these days it's not likely to get better anytime soon.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666689 09/05/05 08:53 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia legionadventureman Wanderer legionadventureman Wanderer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia Quote 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?

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666690 09/05/05 08:57 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada 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?

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666691 09/05/05 09:02 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia legionadventureman Wanderer legionadventureman Wanderer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia 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?

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666692 09/06/05 06:22 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada 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.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666693 09/06/05 06:29 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,083 NorCal Caliente feelin' hot hot hot Caliente feelin' hot hot hot Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,083 NorCal Dude, no one cares about a managerial accounting point of view. Not even managerial accountants...

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666694 09/06/05 06:37 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada But the P & Ls NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666695 09/06/05 10:16 PM Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,619 The Back Office in Abin's Fixi... Space Ranger Deputy Space Ranger Deputy Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,619 The Back Office in Abin's Fixi... Oh, Shut Up! Truth and Justice shall Prevail! (Yak, Yak, Sprocking Yak...) Truth and Justice shall Prevail! (Just as soon as the Check Clears!)

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666696 09/06/05 10:37 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Never! Relativism and Vengence shall Prevail (CP) (You know it to be true.)

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666697 09/06/05 10:45 PM Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,619 The Back Office in Abin's Fixi... Space Ranger Deputy Space Ranger Deputy Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,619 The Back Office in Abin's Fixi... 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!)

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666698 09/06/05 11:13 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,083 NorCal Caliente feelin' hot hot hot Caliente feelin' hot hot hot Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,083 NorCal You and me both Ranger man.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666699 09/07/05 12:50 AM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia legionadventureman Wanderer legionadventureman Wanderer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia If i say something - will i be told to shut up, too???

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666700 09/07/05 04:21 AM Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,724 Scatland Ghost of Numf El Deputy Ghost of Numf El Deputy Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,724 Scatland Shut up! Well you asked for that. Didn't you? Hic!

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666701 09/07/05 05:31 AM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada Tamper Lad Wanderer Tamper Lad Wanderer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,074 Canada I'll not yield this thread because of verbal intimidation.

Re: The Kill-This-Thread Contest! #666702 09/07/05 07:18 AM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia legionadventureman Wanderer legionadventureman Wanderer Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 5,452 Adelaide, Australia Tamper Lad is the best evil genius Legion World could ever hope for...