meh.. nothing exploded here... simply more fuel added to the fire.

Also once again it hits my pet peeves..

1. Awful video quality..8mm camcorders from 2 decades ago, or cell phones with even worse quality.

2. talkative camera man..and this one keeps talking about his mum. Also can't seem to say exploded without giggling.

This reminded me of those 8mm film scenes from "The Game."

i have the 8mm for tomorrow land.

I dunno, I like Nic Cage, sometimes. Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, 8mm and Lord of War were all good. Just don't go see his crap stuff.

I mean seriously, National Treasure, Ghost Rider? The fact that these movies were bad came as a surprise to someone? IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE TITLE! Come on people.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Bildfrettchen-8mm-homage-edited-on-funky-breaks eh?

Yeah, just another measly vote. Wonder who's online? My "PQUEUED with 9 VOTES" list isn't doing it's job lately. Hmm...

LOL... they 'crossed feeds'. WTF does that -mean-? Please explain further. I'd love to hear a technical explanation of how a 'feed' can be crossed in such a manner. What... two satellite signals 'crossed' and just happened to position the image at that location.. or someone in the 'projector room' accidentally overlapped two rolls of 8mm reel-to-reel film? Maybe they accidentally loaded up their Betamax tapes out of order? LOL. Get real.

I suspect it isn't a McCain conspiracy, but apparently someone at Fox HQ (where such -standardized- graphical Fox banners are produced mind you) wanted to pass on a subliminal idea to the public. McCain doesn't need to give approval for such a thing, but the party political machine behind him surely would have the balls to do such a thing.

For this gaff, I place blame directly on Fox HQ, AND the local station for not properly previewing their material before broadcast. Someone should lose their job for this and Fox should be fined.

PS - A very good friend worked for 20+ years in TV broadcast and 25+ years in military communications, so I do have some base reference to draw on regarding the subject.

>> ^raddishs: Comment on the tags: when is it not too soon? Aren't we, according to that logic, pissing on the sacrifices made by our soldiers when we play video games based on WW2?


precisely.

i remember that when this game came out there was an uproar along the lines of "Look what those Limey Bastards are doing to disgrace the memory of our fallen leader!"... i disagreed then, as i do now, to knee-jerking, and as far as this game is concerned i respect the developer's idea. to Traffic Games it's an immersion into a historical event, and i'm sure they understood the repercussions involved in releasing it.

i think this game touches a raw nerve with some older folks, as well as various mouth-foamers, because it reminds them of the event itself and the subsequent Warren Commission that appears to have only opened more questions than given answers. for people of the gaming age (and persuasion) it's a unique chance to apply What We Know about the ordeal in a controllable environment. it's the only time in american history that this has happened to a president *and* was captured on several films, as opposed to Lincoln's assassination, so it feels like those grainy 8mm frames should be telling us everything, and as time goes by and more detail about the incident becomes known we go back and try to put those pieces together. i personally believe we will never know the whole story.

growing up in Texas i was never able to get any information about it from anyone i knew other than "it was awful" or "we went home that day." the people who were witness to it are dying off and unwilling to talk about it, that i can understand, but not talking about it won't make the curiosity go away and this game is a good way to try to get a grip on the event as much as we can. although i'm pretty sure there will also be people playing the game to live out their own fantasies, i don't believe that the majority of people drawn to it are the unpatriotic psycho president-snipers that the Media made them out to be back then.

that being said, it's nerve-wracking to hear people around me talk about how Obama makes them feel like they did when JFK was running. it's always a good idea to keep the past in perspective, but in this election period...with Obama as a candidate (and soon very possibly president)... it's especially important to keep this incident in mind by whatever means necessary.

sometimes the herd knows things unconsciously, just sayin'.

Oh, and as for the consensus view of Se7en- that it is far too horrible to ever be watched by a decent human being- I shared that view until quite recently when I viewed it again. It is redeemed somewhat by the quality of the performances of all the principle actors and the tight direction.

I would like to submit the horrifically bad Nicolas Cage 8mm as my idea of a movie that is so repulsive that it should have never been made.

CHogster, I posted some from Cedar Point 8mm, kinda interesting.