I think---and it's just a guess---that this is supposed to be simpler and easier to maintain and use? In part because the engines are outboard and there aren't all the shafts going to and fro that the V-22 has.

However, I had thought that the criss crossing shafts were part of the military redundancy plan (like, shoot out an engine and limp home on a one---or at least, limp to a better sort of crash landing)---so I don't really know.

Anything that simplifies maintenance will make the fleet cheaper to operate.

On our company campus on the shoreline they built a "Serenity Garden" with a koi pond and stocked it with some beautiful fish. Then the seagulls had a field day with them so they had to make a grid of fishing line criss-crossed across the top of the pond to protect them. Pretty much killed the whole serene effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDaCP1W7gy0 shows how they can screw up in the editing.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140516060435AAoG7vv (I know.. yahoo answers, but there's a post in there about the casting)

Also, just watch the show... there are "tricks" that are completely impossible to do. It's Criss Angel shit all over again.

If believing a "magician" isn't lying to you helps you enjoy the show better then I'm not here to stop you. Enjoy!

Unfortunately, when you look at modern "magicians" these days like Criss Angel, Derren Brown, Dynamo etc .. yes, they all actually do have stooges planted, and all of what is presented in their filmed shows is heavily edited from what you see in person.

And I didn't say everyone was in on it. A few choice stooges in the audience who conveniently had guys with mics standing right behind them. These kinds of performances (albeit without the mics) have been performed this exact same way for as long as magic has existed.

There are plenty of high voltage wires and wire towers criss crossing the forests of Norway - and there's obviously one here. But - they're usually not supposed to do this.

@bjornenlinda with Criss Angel everyone in the video is probably an actor....

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Criss Angel Pulls a Woman Apart. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

If two black men jumped the counter and chased a white girl into the corner of the cooking area and she defended herself with deadly force she would be praised and made a hero. She would get a book deal, have a movie about her story and become the new role model for all women to look up to. Free this man. Get him back on the job. And for criss sake give him a raise.

Hell, wouldn't you get in bed with Criss Angel?

Yowza!

it took 40 seconds for me. It's awesome when you realize the instant it becomes devoid of meaning. You'll know when it sounds like "criss miss"

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Hmmm.

The short review is - what a load of disappointing and quite frankly tedious crap.

Oh Nolan why are you getting worse with each film? Who honestly thinks LDC is an actor with enough charisma to hold a film like this? He really wasn't enough for this role. Why the fuck does Nolan insist on having that thuddingly monotonous soundtrack pounding over virtually every single scene of dialogue? Why not give the actors some space instead of making it feel rushed and forcing them into layering soundbites for only the sake of exposition? Why not make this about the performances rather than worship the god of pacing? (it certainly didn't feel like 148 minutes I'll give him that).

Sorry, that girl he hires? Where was that maze she designed? Oh fuck that, we want a shortcut now. And why is Leo's dad (Michael Caine again for some reason) offering up students to do dodgy work? And what was she studying? Extraction 101? What world is this that dreams can be hacked in this way? This is never explained. Should we expect to see the flying cars out the window? Has cancer been eradicated in this world? How many other people are doing this shit?

And Leo with a bad case of dead wife syndrome (DWS). You know if you want to keep pulling that trick you might want to make it better than it was in Memento. Which is hard to do. Mainly because Guy Pearce is a better actor who makes you feel something about his character. Sympathy, disgust, shock, whatever. Something. LDC is like balsa wood in comparison.

But maybe I'm being too hard on Leo. Maybe the problem is with the script. I was surprised to find I had no problems following what was supposed to be a twisty, layered plot. I didn't see multiple plots criss-crossing and tying my mind up in knots - you want that? Try a James Ellroy novel. I still find Memento a mind-bending watch. The dream within a dream scenario is as hard to imagine as a box within another box. And here that's all that Nolan is concerned about. He loves the techie aspects of this. How does box C behave in box B. Oh B is jiggling about so C is getting all shook up. And do we get to care much about the inception itself? Nope. I thought this was a big missed opportunity to play the complex mind-games required to crack the subject. But in between explosions there wasn't much time for that.

Nolan has become a slightly more sophisticated version of the recent fanboy directors. But he's still thoroughly crass and obvious and doesn't have the talent to explore the spaces between what initially seem like promising ideas. But dreams? Hell, I enjoyed the more straightforward japes of Dreamcape and that was a long time ago.

But I am surprised that so many love this - I'd ask that you think about the characters. State what was memorable about them and what made them interesting. What did this film actually say that was of substance? Strip away the artifice and what are you actually left with?

I saw Total Recall, again, a few days ago. It was better than this.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

I love that people are crying "fake". It's a magic trick, folks; of course it's fake.
"the ppl there didnt seem like actors"
Acting like a typical idiot shouldn't be much of a challenge for any decent actor.
The correct spelling is "Criss Angel".
Not really a one-up... more of a tie.

Yes, it's not so much that it's fake, but more that it's disingenuous. He didn't really perform a feat of illusion or misdirection before an unsuspecting audience, it was done using camera tricks and paid onlookers.


I like to think that 'real' magicians have the ability to ply their craft without the need for such hackery.

I love that people are crying "fake". It's a magic trick, folks; of course it's fake.

"the ppl there didnt seem like actors"
Acting like a typical idiot shouldn't be much of a challenge for any decent actor.

The correct spelling is "Criss Angel".

Not really a one-up... more of a tie.

Completely agree. Criss is clearly an intelligent young woman (who happens to be easy on the eyes) and yet every video is "hot romanian girl something something". It's kinda juvenile.

Don't make me get my emp cannon!


>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Why do you have to be so disrespectful to this bright young girl?


>> ^hpqp:

Also, can we please stop referring to her in relation to her physical attributes, as pleasant as they may be? It is rather demeaning. Moreover, she is sufficiently well known on the internet to be referred to by her pseudo, ZOMGitsCriss, which is not even in the tags here. Shameful!

Lame lair uses paid actors and stupid camera tricks. He's worse then Criss Angel