Recent content by polymath

So in light of the furor over comments made by Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card's comments on homosexuality, I pose a question to you all. If you could separate one piece of work from it's creator what would it be? Plus it'd be nice if you could give a reason. Off the top of my head...

So you're watching a TV show or a movie and then a song starts playing in the soundtrack, it works really well with the scene, perfect thematically, tonally, what have you. But the problem is that song was already used somewhere else. Not just that but the song was used in a pivotal moment of...

What's the big deal, it's not like the whole website is subscription based (which I'm pretty sure would be an act of suicide on their part). They're just making it so that if companies want to put up copyrighted material and use youtube like it's Hulu or something, they've the option of making...

Read this: http://badassdigest.com/2012/10/30/film-crit-hulk-smash-hulk-vs.-plot-holes-and-movie-logic/ Then accept that it doesn't matter too much if the film betrays it's logic if it's in the service of story and characters. Also, that's not really a problem anyway, the reasons the...

The biggest thing for me is that games need to take a step up in the depth side of things. I don't want to turn this into a games are art debate but for me no game has really been able to maintain a consistent tone and exploration of a theme between gameplay and story. And I don't just mean how...

I think you're overlooking the fact that Ledger's death affected Chris Nolan and the crew. If someone you were friends with were to die, don't you think you'd be reluctant to make a casual allusion to them for no real narrative benefit? I'm fairly certain Nolan and co alluded to this in...

It really, really isn't. Very few studio's are going to greenlight an Original Screenplay. The best hope a writer has is that a good original screenplay gets them work as a go to guy when Transformers number whatever needs a re-write. One of the biggest bidding wars of the last few years was...

When did it become acceptable to take the word of an anonymous source as fact? If Sony themselves says something, or the source reveals their identity to be someone involved in the development of the next console, then you can take their word and feel angry. But until then anyone could make up...

OK, so I'm doing a film course and when we use any of the editing software all the terminology is based off of the old way of doing things where you were physically performing tasks that you now just use a tool to do. It's got me thinking what terms, or actions that we don't really think about...

Do you have a movie, TV show or song that if you flick onto it by chance, you just have to stop what you're doing and watch or listen? Just curious because I personally can't think of anything that I have that kind of relationship with but I know people who do.

You'd get a small amount but not a lot. Plus, for the most part the things that are most pirated are also pretty medicore. Whenever there's a list of top pirated films their always shitty films from the previous year that no one wants to pay to see. Those sorts of downloads aren't going to turn...

OK, quite a few things to discuss. Number 1, Harry Potter cannot be nominated for best score because there is no where near enough new material in this years score for it to be considered significantly different from when it was entered after the first film. This is the same reason The Dark...

Any ideas? I was just curious what people would consider to be the defining attribute of an adult? I mean under most countries laws we are adults at 18 or 21 but for air travel it's more like 12. I'll explain what I consider each poll option to mean because I realise there is an overlap in for...

You can argue about this all you want it's not going to be resolved in an online discussion. All I will contribute to the debate is this: The second amendment was written just after the US had won its war of independence. It existed purely so that if the government became tyrannical, the people...

Are there "great" works still being made? I mean this in the "Ulysses", "Citizen Kane", "Hamlet" sense of a great work. Now I'm not looking for a debate on whether any of those were great, or if they're overrated, I'm wondering are there any books being written, or movies being made or music...