Man Working And Working
Gregg upgraded my software to MT 4.1 and it's turned out to be a nightmare.
Comments are posting extremely slowly, and there are error messages. He's going to be working to fix this in the morning. Please bear with us. If you comment, just wait and let it post. It may look like it didn't post. Just wait and refresh your browser, even if you got an error message -- chances are it did post.
And if you're thinking of installing MT 4.1 on an existing site, think twice until they've worked out all the bugs, especially the comments bugs.
Test
Amy Alkon at March 22, 2008 1:01 AM
Verbal 640, Math 615.
(Har!)
Crid at March 22, 2008 1:27 AM
Cant accsess anything beyond the first page.
lujlp at March 22, 2008 7:22 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2008/03/comments-are-do.html#comment-1533439">comment from lujlpThanks so much...calling Gregg! He's on it!
In the mean time, he's going to make 40 entries accessible on this page instead of 10, plus a link to the next 10, and so on, and so on (which he was doing because my traffic's grown so much -- yay! -- that bandwidth was starting to get expensive).
Amy Alkon at March 22, 2008 7:31 AM
I think Gone Baby Gone was a better movie the No Country For Old Men...
eric at March 22, 2008 10:22 PM
than
eric at March 22, 2008 10:23 PM
The Sting was better than Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Also, Casablanca was better than Maltese Falcon.
Any recommendations for current releases are appreciated... It's time to get out of the house and enjoy a new century, before the earthquake hits.
For example... Why did everyone hate "Jumper" so much? The press kit materials at work made it look like a typically fun sci-fi feature, but critics were merciless.
Crid at March 22, 2008 11:22 PM
llll
test at March 23, 2008 8:06 AM
I am being forced to watch No Country for Old Men later tonight. Yes yes yes, I know everyone loves it...
I've recently been enjoying the release of BSG season 3 (FINALLY - holy frak that took a while).
Criddo - I guess the script in Jumper was just "blah" and didn't really allow great acting to shine though. Hayden Christiansen got a lot of flak for his lack of talent. I didn't see it myself, though...
I saw Doomsday in theaters and I have to say I enjoyed it. You just have to accept it for what it is: a tribute to all great end-of-the-world movies with a lot of aspects hijacked from Mad Max. It had a lot of gore but the CGI wasn't overkill/cheesey. Also, Rhona Mitra is totally kickass and hot as fuck (and I'm straight...so if you like buff chicks beating up bad guys you'll really appreciate her a lot).
Gretchen at March 23, 2008 8:12 AM
Crid- do you Netflix?
eric at March 23, 2008 8:18 AM
Nope no Netflix, but if you like something I'll find it. There's been a drought out here....
Crid at March 23, 2008 11:12 AM
BSG fans are turning up everywhere.
Crid at March 23, 2008 11:37 AM
Check out "Things we lost in the Fire." Great acting by Benecio. The re-mastering of Bladerunner is spectacular. The Assassination of Jesse James was really good, but it took me a couple viewings to really appreciate it.
I had to look up "BSG" on google...
PS- The video on your website is deeply disturing Gretchen. I've hugged and played with my dog(s) about a dozen times since I saw it. I am going to look at your site further when I get a chance...
eric at March 23, 2008 11:59 AM
Jeff at March 23, 2008 12:07 PM
Still, I think I'm right. ;-)
Jeff at March 23, 2008 12:18 PM
At work I saw a sales package for the latest Bladerunner director's cut. In the scene of Zhora's death--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riVdd91MWCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0zJlMDsTXg
-- the stunt woman is obviously wearing a hideous wig, one that looks nothing like Cassidy's hair. (They pointed out that when you're crashing through sheets of sugar of that size, it's not much less dangerous than just going through glass.)
So anyway, the decided to fix it for the new DVDs. They brought Cassidy back into a studio last year and shot her head flopping around, then patched it into the old footage (presumably using Maya software, but who knows).
Three points.
1. - No one was looking at the woman's hair anyway. I'd seen the shot maybe seven times over the years and never noticed. Did you?
2. - Cassidy, like many a fading starlet in her generation, spent her middle years getting nipped and tucked so that her face now looks like that of an accident victim. She was never a scorching beauty, but today she looks nothing like she did during the Reagan administration anyway.
3. - It's been 25 years, fer Chrissake!
It reminds me of this this. Perceptions are being manipulated way past any useful purpose, and people are forgetting what it is that makes us connect to an image (or a pretty girl) anyway.
I'm a video editor in Hollywood, and I do some effects work... This isn't meant to come off all vegetarian and naturalist or anything. But why on Earth would anyone bother to fix a shot like that?
Because it makes money. The Lucases and Ridleys aren't playing with all this catalog material to scratch any creative itch. They know that a fantastically wealthy generation of film buffs is just gullible enough to buy the same movie over and over again as long as they can pick it apart to explore arcane variations.
By tonight, I'll remember something about Casablanca that could have been reshot... But nothing comes to mind right now!
Crid at March 23, 2008 1:40 PM
Oh gretchen if I could only find a woamn like you, straight and with the same tatse in chicks and sci fi as me
lujlp at March 23, 2008 10:22 PM
test
test at March 23, 2008 11:06 PM
It doesnt remeber personal info, and the 'your comment was posted page' is damn annoying
I liked it better when it spit you back out to the comment page, although it would be nicer if it spat you out down near your last comment rather than the top of the page
lujlp at March 24, 2008 12:19 AM
Also there is nothing on the 'all about amy' page
lujlp at March 24, 2008 12:24 AM
The "your comment was posted" is embarrassing (to me) and annoying, but it's temporary. Rad most helpfully let me know that "preview" wasn't working -- it was leading to an error message -- and MT templates have changed, and Gregg is searching for a solution...meanwhile, he's got this as a fix so we won't have a broken preview function. I think he had to do it to remove preview. Of course, I'm just guessing. I tried to help him by googling stuff earlier and he very sweetly and tolerantly called me and told me he appreciated the sentiment, but my site isn't even running Perle. Or something like that.
Amy Alkon at March 24, 2008 12:34 AM
I'm getting stuff on the "All about Amy" page -- from Safari browser on a Mac. Maybe it was a temporary thing. Gregg's been testing various fixes and stuff gets shifted around.
Amy Alkon at March 24, 2008 12:35 AM
Crid - you know it's not the "fantastically wealthy" alone buying remastered classics. It's the geeks who appreciate that more than two people are in any given scene. Geez, you oughta know how much work goes into set dressing, background, extras... and then you can go "Easter-egging", looking for the guy in Ben Hur wearing a wristwatch, etc.
And 660/610, 34 years ago. Huh!
This post is via Safari on a PC, testing... on which no "preview" button is visible. Click!
Radwaste at March 24, 2008 2:56 AM
Those aren't my numbers! I made 'em up! I suck at math.
Also, don't use Safari. Safari is for the gays. Also, we need to discourage these guys (Gates, Jobs) from thinking they can control our experience of the world from top to bottom. Use OperaUSB: It handles image and font scaling in an especially handsome, heterosexual way. It can be quickly scripted for spellcheck etc, amd even does torrents.
Also, I scanned through Casablanca, and I wouldn't change a thing. The worst shot is probably near the end when Major Strasser is racing through the sea of fog, honking his horn at the traffic... Even though it's obvious that he's going zero mph, and that there's a union just just off camera jumping up and down on the fender to give the illusion of a bumpy road.
Crid at March 24, 2008 11:51 AM
Also, when Louis is sitting in Rick's office early in the film when they're making the wager on Lazlo, the lighting in his closeup is perhaps the finest work you'll ever see on black and white film... (And remember, this is a film with a dozen heartbreakingly beautiful shots of Ingrid Bergman.) Note that the lamp a few inches from his left eyebrow doesn't overpower the ambient effects. They put a white guy in a white suit against a white wall and made it moody as hell. It's a tonal masterpiece.
"And if he did not leave her in Marseilles or Iran, he certainly won't leave her in Casablanca..."
Crid at March 24, 2008 12:57 PM
Sooooo.... What's Gregg get for working on your website all weekend?
eric at March 24, 2008 4:39 PM
Like the new look, but the blood ruby color seems out of place given it used to be pink
and the preveiw is working
lujlp at March 25, 2008 9:26 AM
so, Amy... where should we send beer? Sounds like you guys could use some... "software upgrades are seamless and transparent to the user..."' Anyone who tells you this s trying to sell promising swampland, infested with 'gators, to you.
SwissArmyD at March 26, 2008 7:02 AM
Thanks, everybody, and the new look will not be with us long. It's just a side-effect.
Amy Alkon at March 26, 2008 8:22 AM
This week's column can be found here.
http://www.advicegoddess.com/ag-column-archives/2008/03/the-hating-is-t.html
Amy Alkon at March 26, 2008 8:24 AM
Gretchen, did you like No Country?
I personally couldn't stand it. If any film-maker not named Coen ever tried to pull off that third act, that print would never have seen the inside of a theater.
BSG, however, is the pretzels.
snakeman99 at March 26, 2008 1:14 PM
We're getting back to normal. Comments will be posting very slowly for a little while longer. Please bear with us! And please let me know at adviceamy at aol dot com if you experience any significant weirdnesses or problems (related to the functioning of the site).
Amy Alkon at March 26, 2008 7:21 PM
Was gonna say... Significant weirdness began in the summer of '59 and hasn't let up. And problems? Let's start with finances...
Crid at March 26, 2008 10:00 PM
Also -
> If any film-maker not named
> Coen ever tried to pull off
> that third act
Didn't see the whole thing, but the Cohens never seem as amusing as they want to be. I liked Lebowski because the people we were laughing at were more obviously caricatures, whereas in Fargo and so many others, it's like they're just making fun of rural folks. No Country has a scene that goes like this:
Texas Husband- "If I don't come back, tell Mother I love her."
Texas Wife- "Honey, your mother's been dead for ten years."
Husband- (Dumbstruck expression, just like a 1973 sitcom)
That stuff isn't amusing.
Hudsucker was 35 minutes too long, but it was worth it to see Leigh channel the pre-Brando mentality of Hepburn with such ferocity.
Crid at March 26, 2008 10:14 PM
eric- The best thing about Things We Lost was the music Del Toro uses for studying.
Crid at March 27, 2008 1:34 AM
tttt
test at March 28, 2008 3:10 PM
tttt
test at March 28, 2008 3:10 PM
Also, In Bruges was weak, even though friends said it would be good. Too long, not funny enough in the funny parts, etc. 1½ stars, tops
Did Colin Ferrel ever make a good movie?
Crid at March 28, 2008 5:19 PM
Leave a comment