Looks like "Energy in Depth" is another bullshit oil industry front group.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_in_Depth

Energy in Depth (EID) is a pro-oil-and-gas drilling industry front group formed by the American Petroleum Institute, the Petroleum Association of America and dozens of additional industry organizations for the purpose of denouncing legislation proposed by Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette to regulate underground hydraulic fracturing fluids. Hydraulic fracturing of underground geological formations, commonly called "fracking," was invented by the Halliburton Company. It is done to increase the amounts of oil and gas that can be extracted from existing wells. [1]

Energy in Depth denounces DeGette's proposed fracking legislation as an “unnecessary financial burden on a single small-business industry, American oil and natural gas producers.” In June, 2009, Energy in Depth started a multimillion dollar lobbying and public relations campaign aimed at derailing public health legislation that would require the disclosure of the chemicals used in fracking fluids. In addition to a Web site, EID's campaign includes a Twitter feed, a Facebook group, a YouTube channel and an aggressive advertising campaign. [1]

Energy in Depth trumpets the economic contribution oil and gas drilling makes, and the numbers of people employed by the industry.

>> ^wagthedog1:

>> ^nanrod:
I know this is all bullshit because T. Boone Pickens was on the Daily Show and he assured me that no water well has ever been contaminated by fracking. He wouldn't lie would he?

And neither would Lee Fuller, executive director of Energy in Depth, who has told the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that a litany of errors in the anti-drilling film should render it ineligible for the Oscar for best documentary feature.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011
/02/01/01greenwire-ioil-and-gas-group-urges-oscar-judges-to-steer-99256.html
Besides, it is good that North Americans are once again getting a small taste of what many petro-states have have to endure over the decades to fuel a lifestyle of excess.

>> ^nanrod:

I know this is all bullshit because T. Boone Pickens was on the Daily Show and he assured me that no water well has ever been contaminated by fracking. He wouldn't lie would he?


And neither would Lee Fuller, executive director of Energy in Depth, who has told the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that a litany of errors in the anti-drilling film should render it ineligible for the Oscar for best documentary feature.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/02/01/01greenwire-ioil-and-gas-group-urges-oscar-judges-to-steer-99256.html

Besides, it is good that North Americans are once again getting a small taste of what many petro-states have have to endure over the decades to fuel a lifestyle of excess.

Ha... top rated comment from youtube with 430 votes:

"4chan: The Motion Picture"

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I don't know if the creator intended it, but I find it even more fitting that he/she applied this treatment to the film/series that is generally considered to represent the dawn of modern/advanced special effects in motion pictures.

I would have mistaken this for Technicolor if it was not for http://1000words.kodak.com/post/?ID=2982503

It seems like the two had a little rivalry going on with colour film but I imagine in the early days Technicolor was far more relevant for motion pictures. Technicolor was just starting to be used for actual films the same year this test reel was made.

I'm now quite curious to why Kodak did not bother pursuing this further. They were too busy with the still pictures market to care?

A couple of nerd notes from me, please!

1. Superman and Lois copulated at the end of Superman II, but maybe that was only in the Richard Donner cut.

2. If memory serves didn't Superman return (in Superman Returns) in a crystal vessel? Is so he probably left in it, so the lack of the yellow sun wouldn't harm him in outer space.

3. When I was in film school the directing majors in my class had a phone in conversation with Robert Wise. Wise directed the first Star Trek (Star Trek the Motion Picture). Yes, it's slow. But, according to him, his point was that at that time in 1979 there wasn't a lot of big budget films that showed ships in space, so the long shots of the Enterprise were awe-inducing for the time.

4. Upon first viewing of Superman Returns, yes, I thought it was boring. I'm more of a Marvel fan anyways, but years later I picked it up on Blu-Ray and watched it again knowing ahead of time that the plot was slow. I don't believe there are huge plot holes. Also the story gets better once you drop your expectations for a "kick ass" comic book action-fest. The storytelling is well paced and interesting. It's not Dark Knight, but it's still good filmmaking. It's not brainless crap like Ghost Rider or the regrettable Daredevil.

5. WHAT THE FUCK IS KEVIN SMITH WEARING?! Long shorts down to his ankles and a fucking trenchcoat? He's wearing Juggalo attire. He looks ridiculous.

6. Red Dead Redemption is awesome. I don't care if that has nothing to do with this.

My two cents.

>> ^nock:

I did not feel that this video constituted a "snuff" film because it was not presented for entertainment purposes. While it is not part of a newscast or documentary, it well could be used in one of those media to spur debate about the conflict in that region.
I don't know if Wikipedia is generally accepted as a source, but here goes:
"A snuff film or snuff movie is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual death or murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation."
Since the cameraman presumably is a red shirt himself, he does not stand to gain financially by taking the film, nor would he find particular entertainment pleasure in the death of a comrade. Discuss.


Please read the Video Sift definition of snuff here (#3 on the posting guidelines).

I did not feel that this video constituted a "snuff" film because it was not presented for entertainment purposes. While it is not part of a newscast or documentary, it well could be used in one of those media to spur debate about the conflict in that region.

I don't know if Wikipedia is generally accepted as a source, but here goes:

"A snuff film or snuff movie is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual death or murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation."

Since the cameraman presumably is a red shirt himself, he does not stand to gain financially by taking the film, nor would he find particular entertainment pleasure in the death of a comrade. Discuss.

*dead "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."

I forget where, but similar concept (although with older technology) was used for a billboard to produce images like this in much larger sizes back in the 30s. I wish I could remember what city it was or what it was called, just an old newsreel about using a projector to "blow up" a motion picture into lights just like this. Was pretty bad ass for pre-transistor tech.

I think a lot of people struggle to embrace this film because they probably believe they need to overthink the story and what the movie is trying to say. The simplest interpretation is that the past and the future, while non-linearly juxtaposed with the present, are the fiction in Rachel Weisz' character's book. Sure, the movie's core message is one of the immortality of life, energy, the spirit, etc... but in the end, the viewer does not HAVE to think that the movie is suggesting a real Tree of Life exists, or that one can float through the cosmos in a sphere. The movie's spiritual message is designed to stand apart from that.

I adore this movie. I also think that Mansell should have received an Oscar for the score, as it is one of the finest motion picture soundtracks of all time. As is said in a comment above, the interpretation of things is left fairly open-ended, and I'd hate anyone to overlook this movie because they felt they had to accept the possibility of some of the more fantastical elements of the film in order to appreciate it.

"Awkward smalltalk, the motion picture." <-- Just about sums it up perfectly.

>> ^finch451:
I think it deserves mention somewhere that the guy who created Tank Girl and originally drew the comic is Jamie Hewlett, the artist behind The Gorillaz.


good to know

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