My personal take: the problem with CGI and 3D anmiation (and it's only been exacerbated by the new trend in 3D moviemaking) is it gives the director too much control. Regarding camera placement, instead of employing traditional camera movement, now that in can be placed anywhere, it has been. We get these rollercoaster spins, pans, trucks and zooms that completely disorient the viewer. In "Tron Legacy", do I really need to see the light cycles in profile, hovering only 2 inches off the ground going 100mph to the right, only to vault over the bike and sweep around to the back of it to showcase another light cycle entering the fray? No. Just because you can place the camera inside someone's butt crack doesn't mean you should.

And with CGI, it gives the director too much leeway in exaggerating scale, movement and proportions. Perfect example: In Stephen Sommers remake of "The Mummy" Imhotep screams and his mouth artificially elongates. If you watch earlier in the film, it does so but only slightly, imparting a sense of the supernatural. But by the end of the film, his screams become so overly done, it comes across as comic and bufoonish, as if I was watching a Tex Avery cartoon. That's OK to do in Jim Carrey's "The Mask" because it calls for it. But not in "The Mummy", nor in "I Am Legend". The vampires in "I Am Legend" aren't threatening, they're evil monster meets Stretch Armstrong.

I like Aronofsky's approach to CGI: Use it as sparingly as you can, and only as a last resort.

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2. I was mute for a week with strep throat, and still managed to seduce someone using only physical comedy and facial expressions.
3. I've logged 79 of the 110 Messier Objects.
4. I once killed a groundhog because he was a legitimate threat to my food supply.
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6. I can do something with my tongue that I've never seen another human do. (This is in no way related to #2)
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Looks like a great coaster. I've only ever seen that type in Rollercoaster Tycoon.

Nice fail trombone at the end.

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That kitten is riding one hell of a rollercoaster in it's dream...

>> ^ant:

Wow, Six Flags never recovered this one?


Six Flags? Hell, NEW ORLEANS hasn't recovered. They had almost 500,000 people pre-Katrina. It's taken 5 years to get back above 300,000. 200,000 is a lot of rollercoaster rides.

Homeworld was a breathtakingly stunning game every way you looked at it. Graphics, music, gameplay and storyline, all perfectly intertwined to immerse you in an emotional rollercoaster of a gaming experience.

Can't find anything concrete on HW3, only hopes and allusions.

http://homeworld.wikia.com/wiki/Homeworld_3

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>> ^Gallowflak:
Oh, come on, dude. The issue here is making people almost deliberately uncomfortable, claustrophobic and immobile for the sake of some extra profit. It's not a matter of taste, or people thinking every design should suit them/their physiology, it's just fundamentally horrible design.
I was relieved to hear that it's only for flights of two hours or less in duration. The idea of being in that position for 22 hours on the Birmingham/Sydney route is almost as terrifying as a waterboarding session.

It's optional. As far as I can tell, no one is being put in that situation against their will (that would be fairly dishonest).
Bicycles aren't exactly comfortable either, but people choose to spend hours on those. You may not want to, and that's fine, but I'm glad the option exists.

With the condition that it's optional, then there's surely no problem. However, an important consideration is what percentage of seats will be comprised of these new designs in the airlines that install them.
I should also say that I have no idea what bicycles have to do with anything.


Unless every single plane installs this and only this - that's still optional.

I *can* fit in one of these seats, i don't *want* to sit on one, so i won't. Where's the beef? No one's forcing anyone to use them, so why the fuck would anyone complain?

If you're too fat to fit on a rollercoaster, you find another ride that you can fit on. That rollercoaster is not mandatory.

that's effin' crazy.

Add a skateboard and it's, woot! insta-rollercoaster

liked how, as a kid's game, they won't let anything bad happen, and end each run with joyous hoorays regardless.

idea for a rollercoaster in part 2 - "The LHC"

I went for Avatar. For me, it's all about the cinema experience. Sure, it hasn't got the strongest story, but action films rarely do. But you have to look at the whole package. The entertainment value, the thrills, the rollercoaster ride... Avatar delivered.

I did see Hurt Locker, and it was a great film. But overall, I came out from Avatar feeling like I'd witnessed a 10/10 entertainment experience, and that's important. It was something fresh.