More media companies realizing that they can profit from 'pirated' content on YouTube. Honestly, it's about time. All of things that are copyrighted on YouTube are really free advertising. If you see something on there and really like it enough to want to watch it again and again, odds are you're going to want to shell out for it in a quality that doesn't look like it was recorded underwater.
Women spend 3,276 hours getting ready. That's 136 days of their lives. Sadly, in some cases even all of those (wo)man hours just don't help.
Analyst: Game industry to hit $63.2 billion in revenue by 2013. So yeah, let's ban games and all of that potential revenue that'll help the economy. Another good idea brought to you by uptight idiots.
MPAA helped cops nab hundreds of movie pirates. As much as I dislike the MPAA and rant about them, I don't really have an issue with them going after people who sell pirated movies. To me, there's a world of difference between somebody downloading a movie to see if it's worth legitimately buying and someone making a profit by selling something they don't have the rights to.
The Top 7... Girl gamer stereotypes. Are people still hung up on that whole "girls playing games" thing? Seems to be old hat.
Boiling Point: You have 1 unread message. A nice rant about idiots with cellphones checking their texts and mails in movie theaters. Other people have ruined the theater experience for me. I generally wait for home video now.
Fox suing Warner Brothers over WATCHMEN. I guess when you option the rights to a movie, never make it, then let the rights lapse, you should sue whoever picks up the rights next and actually decides to make that movie. It's the American way!
Harry Potter Fans Fight 8-Month Film Delay. "Waaaaah! Our little movie is coming out six months later than the other ones did! Waaaah!" Seriously, protests outside of the movie studio and petitions about how delaying, not cancelling, delaying the movie has "ruined my life"? In the immortal words of Shatner from that SNL sketch, "Get a life people!" I don't care in the slightest about Harry Potter, never read one of the books or seen a single one of the movies, but when things I do like get delayed (happens all the time), I'm disappointed without errupting in nerd rage.
Women spend 3,276 hours getting ready. That's 136 days of their lives. Sadly, in some cases even all of those (wo)man hours just don't help.
Analyst: Game industry to hit $63.2 billion in revenue by 2013. So yeah, let's ban games and all of that potential revenue that'll help the economy. Another good idea brought to you by uptight idiots.
MPAA helped cops nab hundreds of movie pirates. As much as I dislike the MPAA and rant about them, I don't really have an issue with them going after people who sell pirated movies. To me, there's a world of difference between somebody downloading a movie to see if it's worth legitimately buying and someone making a profit by selling something they don't have the rights to.
The Top 7... Girl gamer stereotypes. Are people still hung up on that whole "girls playing games" thing? Seems to be old hat.
Boiling Point: You have 1 unread message. A nice rant about idiots with cellphones checking their texts and mails in movie theaters. Other people have ruined the theater experience for me. I generally wait for home video now.
Fox suing Warner Brothers over WATCHMEN. I guess when you option the rights to a movie, never make it, then let the rights lapse, you should sue whoever picks up the rights next and actually decides to make that movie. It's the American way!
Harry Potter Fans Fight 8-Month Film Delay. "Waaaaah! Our little movie is coming out six months later than the other ones did! Waaaah!" Seriously, protests outside of the movie studio and petitions about how delaying, not cancelling, delaying the movie has "ruined my life"? In the immortal words of Shatner from that SNL sketch, "Get a life people!" I don't care in the slightest about Harry Potter, never read one of the books or seen a single one of the movies, but when things I do like get delayed (happens all the time), I'm disappointed without errupting in nerd rage.
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Very typical of Fox to let someone else do all the work and then try to make money off it. My sis-in-law used to work for the Fox Studios and can attest to the fact that the execs there regard this sort of thing as "business as usual."
I don't see the big deal with people checking texts and emails in movies. If the phone is on silent how does it bother you. I had to text someone when I saw Pineapple express the other day to let them know if I was going to be able to pick them up, sometimes it's just something you have to do.
Doc: Well, that's pretty much all of the corporate side of Hollywood.
John: I didn't write the article, but I saw the author's point, and just chalked it up as another thing to add to the list of "annoying things people do at the movies". My main gripe about other people at movies is people talking on their phones, or just plain talking in general. Texting and mailing during a movie, whether it's silent or not, can be seen by some as just another variation of that sort of behavior. It's absolutely a symptom of that sort of behavior. People think they're in their living rooms, and have zero consideration for anybody else in theaters.
As the article pointed out, sitting behind somebody (or multiple people) with tiny glowing screens can be a distraction for other people that are there that are actually trying to watch the movie, which is the whole point of paying to see it to begin with. Why be there if you're not going to actually watch the movie?
I'm sure that certain people find that just as annoying as when people used to bring laser pointers and flash them around all the time.
Let's be realistic here, most people texting during a movie don't *absolutely* need to be. Your example, while hardly an emergency in most people's books, is reasonable and excusable. But I'd imagine that there's more than a few idiots carrying on a conversation for the duration of a movie.
But hey, I'm the guy who usually waits to see things at home, and turns his phone off on the rare occasions I can be dragged to a theater to grind my teeth while wishing for the slow demise of the idiots around me.
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