text: Posted Online: July 14, 2011, 5:13 pm How Harry Potter changed the world Comment on this story Related stories By Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel Photo: Associated Press British author J.K. Rowling reacts during a 2007 photo session for the release of her final Harry Potter book, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' at the Natural History Museum in London. Rowling was to reveal her latest project involving the boy wizard on Thursday: 'Pottermore,' a mysterious website that has been taunting fans with the words 'coming soon.; J.K. Rowling's seven critically acclaimed best-selling novels came to a conclusion four years ago this month. And after today, there will be no more new films based on the adventures of Harry Potter and the friends he made at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2," the eighth and final film based on those seven books, wraps it all up.But once the box-office records have fallen and the receipts have been counted, will Harry endure? Will the books be picked up by a new generation? Will the films? Will Pottermore, Rowling's new Potter-interactive website, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando be enough to keep Harry's wand working?And more to the point, did Harry Potter change the world?His fans say, "Yes!""Absolutely," says Melissa Anelli, chief mischief-maker at the big Harry Potter convention, LeakyCon, in Orlando through this weekend. The Harry Potter phenomenon "made reading cooler; it made being geeky more awesome."The messages of Harry's adventures were simple and forthright, notes Greg Garrett, a Baylor University professor who writes about film and popular culture. Harry's "courage and self-sacrifice have made us want to be braver people. ... And his compassion for people who were marginal ... even his enemies, has made us want to be more compassionate people."The LeakyCon convention, a gathering of 3,400 Potter die-hards from all over the world, was evidence of that, says Edward Drogos, editor of the Potter site LeakyNews and deputy chief mischief-maker at LeakyCon.An event geared toward charities means that "just by attending LeakyCon, people are giving back and helping those less fortunate."One of those charities is The Harry Potter Alliance, a group formed, as Newsweek magazine once noted, "to make a difference in the world.""We are witnessing the Harry Potter Generation, applying the message of that series toward changing the world," says Andrew Slack, executive director of the alliance, which has shipped cargo planes of aid to Haiti and donated more than 88,000 books to Third World countries. The group, with 85 chapters worldwide, uses "the weapon we have is love" as its motto in taking on issues as diverse as genocide, global climate change and gay rights, making it and Slack favorite targets of cultural conservatives.But the preachers selling videos warning of Harry Potter "leading children to witchcraft" have faded from view. And the alliance's "equal marriage is both moral and essential" manifesto seems a lot less controversial than it did four years ago, with same-sex marriage recognized in 10 countries and such marriages now performed in six U.S. states.The films already are the most popular film series of all time, surpassing "Star Wars" and the long-running James Bond series. But in the end, it is the books that have made the biggest impact on the world. About 450 million copies of Rowling's novels are in circulation in almost every language under the sun.The books were where readers could "escape into this world that was both so much like our own, and so unlike our own," says Drogos, whose mother gave him the first two novels as a boy. "It was real life, with all of our real-life problems, but with something magical extra."Anelli, given the first novel by her sister just before starting her last year of college, fell for "Harry's pure heart.""Those books got kids reading again," says Miranda Richardson, who played the gossip journalist Rita Skeeter in the films. "That's how she changed the world," she says, referring to author Rowling. "The movies are grand entertainments, but all those kids getting into reading, that's (Rowling's) gift to us all."Her co-star, British character actor Alan Rickman (Severus Snape in the movies), echoed that when he took out a full-page ad in the British film magazine Empire in April."It is an ancient need to be told stories," Rickman wrote. "But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo." Related Stories Wild about Harry? Try this quiz! The ultimate spellbinder: Harry Potter series reaches a satisfying conclusion


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Updated! Is This For The Wachowskis' Remake Of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS?
Hey folks, Harry here - Wired.com is running a story about an 8.5 minute film that it seems is going to be blown up and used at theatrical resolution as part of the Wachowski Brothers' planned remake of THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS at Warner Brothers. The two best versions - Kevin McCarthy and Donald Sutherland - are just about perfect films - and there's a number of Body Snatcher-esque ripoffs that are fun too, including the one I was in, Rodriguez's THE FACULTY. So why retell this tale? I'm not sure, I'd love to find out more on their take of the material - as for now - certainly this excerpt from the short film, THE INNER LIFE OF THE CELL by David Bolinsky - is a helluva treat on its own. Enjoy...
Harry, you silly bastard.
First of all, the film's already done. It's called INVASION, or THE INVASION, or whatever the heck Warner Bros. finally settles on.
The majority of the film was done before Daniel Craig went off to shoot CASINO ROYALE. It was directed by Oliver (THE EXPERIMENT) Hirschbiegel, a pretty groovy German filmmaker. However, after a shitload of testing, the producers brought in The Wachowskis to reshoot the ending and punch up the film a bit.
That's what this guy in WIRED is talking about... his film is obviously going to be used in some fashion during some of the new framework that the Wachowskis reshot. Even the reshoots are already done. This thing's on track to be out at some point this year, and I would expect that with Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman both appearing in THE GOLDEN COMPASS this year together and with Craig now finally an international star thanks to CASINO ROYALE, this will get a big push no matter how it's all finally Frankensteined together.
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March 14, 2007, 5:08 p.m. CST
Dear fucking god!!!! It's BEEN REMADE!
by Doctor_Sin
Not only with Donald Sutherland, but remember "Bodysnatchers"? The sequel/remake/bullshit?
Dear christ almighty NOOOOOO MOOOOOOOORE!
March 14, 2007, 5:08 p.m. CST
by Tommy the Cat
My Dad worked on 'The Faculty'!!
March 14, 2007, 5:09 p.m. CST
There is no spoon.
by kravmaguffin
Can we just call them the Wachowski's since...well you know...the one brother well...I'm not gonna even say it.GFY
March 14, 2007, 5:09 p.m. CST
by Tommy the Cat
March 14, 2007, 5:09 p.m. CST
by Err
Will we get to see the body snatching in bullet time?
March 14, 2007, 5:16 p.m. CST
No one in Hollywood w/ balls to remake Gone w/ the Wind
by Doctor_Sin
Because I'm so surprised it hasn't been done yet.
March 14, 2007, 5:17 p.m. CST
Are you sure this isn't for INVASION...
by blackmantis
...with Nicole Kidman. I thought that was the latest remake of Invasions of the Body Snatchers.
March 14, 2007, 5:17 p.m. CST
Remember when the Wachowski's were original...
by UltimaRex
Yeah, me too. Oh well back to the grind. PETER JACKSON FOR JLA!
March 14, 2007, 5:22 p.m. CST
AGAIN? Is this the most remade movie ever?!
by riskebiz
Dang, isn't "The Invasion" coming out this year with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig? Do we need another remake hot on the heels of that remake?
March 14, 2007, 5:22 p.m. CST
UltimaRex irony
by Anakin Whoopass
Peter Jackson who re-re-made King Kong?
March 14, 2007, 5:22 p.m. CST
So hoew many times has this been remade?
by Childe Roland
Four? Five?
I think there were two that actually carried over the name or some portion thereof, but there were a slew of knock-offs as well.
And, no, UltimaRex, I don't recall the Brothers W ever being original. You don't actually think they came up witht he idea for The Matrix, do you?
March 14, 2007, 5:24 p.m. CST
Okay people, read the article--
by blackmantis
It says the Wachowski's were brought in to rework the ending of the Nicole Kidman version.
March 14, 2007, 5:25 p.m. CST
The day I accept social commentary from a drag queen
by TheRevengeOfBayouWilly
is the day I take my own life. Read up on the one dude who dresses in mumus and left his wife for a lesbian domme. Weirdo freaks.
March 14, 2007, 5:25 p.m. CST
by CarmillaVonDoom
Abel Ferraras version is the last word. Seriously, this has GOT TO STOP!!!!
March 14, 2007, 5:26 p.m. CST
I think this might be for The Invasion
by John-Locke
Oliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment, Downfall) made that film for WB but the film has been going through reshoot hell, he's left the project and there have been rumors of The Wachowski's being given a further $10 million budget to write/add some more action. Maybe they are just going to shelve the whole original film and get the actors (Kidman & Craig) to return under their original contracts.
March 14, 2007, 5:26 p.m. CST
Isn't Texas Chainsaw Massacre remade more often?
by Err
March 14, 2007, 5:29 p.m. CST
Like it being the Kidman version is any better
by Doctor_Sin
Hollywood is like one huge 7th-Level Boss Zombie that refuses to drop dead no matter what weapons, spells, or combos you throw its way.
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 50s and 70s, "Bodysnathcers" 90s...now ANOTHER decade gets the "your uncle was replaced by a pod person copy" shit?
March 14, 2007, 5:30 p.m. CST
No thanks
by zoomddy
I vow to watch NO remakes this year. Crap . . . that leaves only about 4 movies to watch, and one of THOSE will probably have Jim Carrey. I'm gonna go read a comic.
March 14, 2007, 5:34 p.m. CST
Just noticed Drew's correction
by John-Locke
So yeah I was right. I despise any director who will take the job of doing reshoots for another persons film, it wouldn't be so bad if it was a Director trying to make a name for themself but the Wachowski's have already done that so this just reeks of selling out to me. I hope we get to see Hirschbiegel's cut on DVD like they did for The Exorcist prequel (even though both versions of that sucked donkey balls).
March 14, 2007, 5:36 p.m. CST
Now that Harry's been PUNK'D, this post will vanish
by Doctor_Sin
Just count the nanoseconds, TBers.
March 14, 2007, 5:40 p.m. CST
Tarzan and Three Musketeers may have more remakes
by Big Bad Clone
Or Dracula. Or Phantom of the Opera. Or a Christmas Carol. Or Miracle on 34th Street.
<lb>I like people getting pissed off when they see a remake coming and claim Hollywood is running out of ideas. Get you heads out of your asses and realize that this shit's gone on for a long time and will continue for as long as there are movies. Shit, plays are always revived and reinvented. And still the same audiences see those fucking plays. Hell, people pay to hear covers of overplayed songs. It's part of the great circle of pop culture recycling. The only thing we can say is: Is it worth my time?
March 14, 2007, 5:40 p.m. CST
by -guyinthebackrow
Wactch out for that Chubby motherfuckin' Rain!
March 14, 2007, 5:44 p.m. CST
I'm tired of Dracula remakes, too
by Doctor_Sin
Don't even get me started on Christmas Carol. The best goddamn version was the Sanford and Son episode.
So, by you're argument Clone, we should just close our eyes, bend over and let it happen? Just because it's been status quo means we need to stick with it and never demand more? Ridiculous.
March 14, 2007, 5:44 p.m. CST
You are telling me that they tried to improve...
by DerLanghaarige
...Oliver Hirschbiegel with The Wachowskies? The man who made "Das Experiment" and "Downfall" with the guys who gave us "Matrix"? Oh, come on!
March 14, 2007, 5:45 p.m. CST
Oh-oh, the grammar police are gonna come and get me
by Doctor_Sin
goddamn "your"/"you're" crap.
March 14, 2007, 5:50 p.m. CST
Too Soon
by Lando Griffin
for another remake.
March 14, 2007, 5:51 p.m. CST
And THAT'S why everybody hates German directors.
by DerLanghaarige
I'm sure that INVASION was a pretty smart film, because Oliver Hirschbiegel is a pretty smart filmmaker (he prefered directing DOWNFALL over BLADE TRINITY!). But smart films = No No in Hollywood! So the only way for German directors to get a job in Hollywood, is making films like TROY or INDEPENDENCE DAY!
 And I was really looking forward for this one! REALLY!
 Oliver! Komm zurück nach Deutschland! Tom Tykwer geht es hier auch gut!
March 14, 2007, 5:58 p.m. CST
I mean, what the fuck is this?
by DerLanghaarige
It's kinda like replacing Ridley Scott with Tony Scott!
March 14, 2007, 6 p.m. CST
No, seriously, I'm pissed!
by DerLanghaarige
That was one of my most anitcipated films of 2007!
March 14, 2007, 6:01 p.m. CST
From IMDB on Larry Wachowski....
by Err
Estranged wife Thea Bloom was his college sweetheart. He left Bloom in 2002 for Karin Winslow, a professional dominatrix, who left her husband to take Wachowski on as her "slave."
March 14, 2007, 6:01 p.m. CST
The Wachowskis can
by DonkeyTron
remake the fuckin' Bible for all I care. They're a bunch of washed up, drag queens that had a moment in the sun when they stole The Matrix and then fell flat on their asses when they actually had to write something original for the sequels. And stop kidding yourselves, V for Vendetta was fucking lame and if I was Alan Moore I'd find that tranny fuck and kick him in the ovaries.
March 14, 2007, 6:06 p.m. CST
Bend over? I thought I had the option to ignore shit
by Big Bad Clone
How about I not go see a shitty remake? Just like any other movie, I'll only go if something about it pique's my interest.
<lb> I can't be the movie police. People love shitty movies. Just look at Norbit, Bruce Almighty, and Wild Hogs. "Original" movies can suck, too.
<lb>I demand more with my money and I (usually) get it.
March 14, 2007, 6:07 p.m. CST
by DerLanghaarige
Fuck fuck fuck!
March 14, 2007, 6:17 p.m. CST
Fuck the remake...
by Chriss
... somebody tell them IOTB was a social-political piece about communism. It's like remaking King Kong, which was a social piece about African Americans. Don't these film makers get it?
March 14, 2007, 6:17 p.m. CST
Loved all versions...
by Frank Black
...especially Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers... The only story I don't mind them repeatedly remaking...
March 14, 2007, 6:19 p.m. CST
... Make a feature length documentary...
by Chriss
... like the short film above. Damn that was 7.5 minutes of pure nerd heaven. I would love to see that for an hour and a half or two, with Morgan Freemon narrating about what is happening and why inside the most basic building blocks of life. March of the Liposomes: December 2008.
March 14, 2007, 6:22 p.m. CST
By the way...
by Chriss
"Wachowski Brothers" is the new code for Alan Smithee. There really are no Wachowski brothers. Just typically A-Rated directors who put out really poor films that they don't want on their resume - so they credit it to the mythical Wachowski's.
March 14, 2007, 6:24 p.m. CST
even i knew that
by troutpencil
James McTeigue directed the reshoots and the Wachowskis did some rewriting. I was aware of this for some time and I'm not even an insider like Harry. Bunch of assholes.
March 14, 2007, 6:24 p.m. CST
by DerLanghaarige
I...just want to know... :'(
March 14, 2007, 6:33 p.m. CST
Abel Ferrara Version
by topaz4206
I loved it, and Gabrielle Anwar was nekkid :)
March 14, 2007, 6:42 p.m. CST
Glad to hear . . .
by zoomddy
that someone else hated "V for Vapid." What an excruciating yawn-fest. I even wanted Natalie dead by the end of the "movie."
March 14, 2007, 7:22 p.m. CST
The only way this is a good idea...
by JacksParasites
...is if, like War of the Worlds, it stays true to the core themes of the original. In this case, the original was about the fear of communism. This film should subtly tie itself to the similar fear of terrorists, so that it's adapted to reflect the times and isn't just a dumbed down version of a brilliant film.
March 14, 2007, 7:37 p.m. CST
I never hear anyone acknowledge how much...
by Bronx Cheer
...the original "Body Snatchers" was influenced by "Miracle on 34th Street." It's downright criminal.
March 14, 2007, 7:37 p.m. CST
What the fuck are the Wachowskis doing this for?
by Judge Dredds Dirty Undies
This is very suspicious. IOTBS does not need to be remade yet again FFS. Remakes should be banned full stop.
March 14, 2007, 7:54 p.m. CST
JacksParasites, you completely misread the original!
by Bronx Cheer
The film isn't a veiled reference to communism and the witch hunt, it's about the very common fear of fungus infections, especially the kind that grow under your toe nails. Scary!
March 14, 2007, 8:13 p.m. CST
'Cos when I think moody suspense, I think Wachowskis
by Doctor_Sin
I actually like their flicks - and loved V for Vendetta, but how in the world are they right for this?
March 14, 2007, 8:17 p.m. CST
When I think moody suspense,
by Bronx Cheer
March 14, 2007, 8:45 p.m. CST
Thanks to Harry for reminding us he was in The Faculty.
by Barry Egan
That movie is a piece of shit, so it takes real balls to mention it. I saw Famke Jansen on The Daily Show once and she and John Stewart were laughing about how neither of them had seen it. Stewart chastises her for not seeing it and she says, "Like you've seen it." Funny stuff.
March 14, 2007, 8:49 p.m. CST
They all owe a tip of the hat to "The Puppet Masters,"
by Bronx Cheer
don't you think? (This time I'm serious.)
March 14, 2007, 9:24 p.m. CST
Garth at Dark Horizons scooped this...
by Christopher3
A few days ago. "Invasion's" in "Joyride"-like surgery.
March 14, 2007, 10:12 p.m. CST
COSMPIC POWERS > Anything
by Doctor_Sin
And when I think Puppet Masters, I think of nothing else.
March 14, 2007, 10:33 p.m. CST
you silly bastard = you dumb fuck
by ATARI
Mori's just being p.c.
March 14, 2007, 10:37 p.m. CST
Why I Hate the Wachowski's
by zoomddy
The Matrix was a damn fine movie, but the Wachowski's should be damned to hell for all eternity for permanently destroying the movie fight scene. EVERYBODY now wants us to believe their character is NEO . . . Hello? Drew Barrymore running up the side of a wall? EVERYBODY now is a top-notch martial arts expert? Nobody gets punched anymore . . . they all get Chuck Norris Flying Roundhouse Kicks to the face . . . UGH.
March 14, 2007, 11:14 p.m. CST
Body Snatchers SHOULD get remade every 20 years
by Osmosis Jones
All three previous versions tapped into current socio-politial trends with unnering skill, and were well-made creature-features to boot. Although it's worrisome that the film is getting so heavilly reshot, and downright bizarre that the Wachowskis got the call to fill in the cracks to add extra "action". Do we need bullet-time pod people? I hope Hirshbeigel's[sp?] original vision doesn't get ruined in the process.
March 14, 2007, 11:19 p.m. CST
That footage is stolen from STAR TREK: TMP!
by Bob Cryptonight
That's from the long, boring special effects ride through V'ger.
March 15, 2007, 1:49 a.m. CST
I can't wait for Harry's review!
by Davis of Texas
It has hairy bulges pressing together and suspicious flecks of debris suspended in anonymous fluids. Try to awkwardly turn THAT into a sexual metaphor!
March 15, 2007, 1:59 a.m. CST
saw the philip kaufman
by ewokstew
remake just a few days ago. There's a nice, loose directorial style to that film. Almost documentary like. Very creepy and tense.
March 15, 2007, 7:59 a.m. CST
Rob Cohen to remake The Matrix
by Spandau Belly
Any filmmaker who does a remake should be forced to watch a remake of their own most beloved film.
March 15, 2007, 8:04 a.m. CST
Go on then. Tell me about the Wakowski's stealing the Matrix
by Teamwak
idea. A couple of people have mentioned this. If you dont mind, will someone give me the skinny on this.
 As far as I was aware, the Matrix was on original idea by them. Either way though, the first one kicks all kinds of arse! Second = Meh. Third = WTF! V for Vendetta rocks too. That movie has seriously grown on me with re-watching.
March 15, 2007, 8:14 a.m. CST
Those Wachowski C**ts need this vehicle
by council estate scumbag
after the shit fest that was matrix 2 & 3. Fuck. they practically invented a new genre when they did matrix 1 (ok it ripped heavily off of ghost in the shell but who gives a rats arse), then they fuck themselves rectorially by doing 2 & 3. animatrix was a good concept, but they didnt direct any of that shit.
March 15, 2007, 8:18 a.m. CST
educate yourself Teamwank
by council estate scumbag
for fucks sake, fella. watch ghost in the fucking shell THEN come back on here. tired of these pissing idiot people who dont know shit, sprouting off their opinions like some crazy lord of the manor, or whatever yank equivalent you cunts have. grow a brain and educate yourself on films.
March 15, 2007, 9:03 a.m. CST
Bit pissy today Scumbag
by Teamwak
Anyone would think you got your ass handed to you yesterday in another TB. Is that what happened "pothead"? :)
 And I didnt ask which movie I should watch, I asked if someone would quickly tell why.
March 15, 2007, 9:10 a.m. CST
A bit of plagerism, is it?
by Teamwak
How close is it to the story of Ghost in the Shell? Did the producers of that say anything when the Matrix came out?
 And I wasnt spouting opinions like a lord of the manor?!? All I said was I really liked the first Matrix and didnt care much for 2 and 3. You even made fun of my name. I am sad now :(
March 15, 2007, 9:23 a.m. CST
Too bad Sophia Stewart's lawsuit fell apart
by Doctor_Sin
I was looking forward to her showing how the W-brothers ripped off her ideas in "The Third Eye." Because I'm sure they did.
http://tinyurl.com/3bf9pp
Sure, she's a wacked-out New Agey author with a serious "the white man has ripped me off" tint, but I'd be bitter too if my partial script (submitted through proper Hollywood channels) went on to make someone else a fortune.
March 15, 2007, 9:24 a.m. CST
I'm betting it's being used for the opening credits.
by StovetopStuffin'
Just picture the cast and producers names being supered over those images. What else could it possibly be used for? A CSI-style montage?
March 15, 2007, 9:45 a.m. CST
Matrix series should have been better than Star Wars
by performingmonkey
Instead we get one retarded 'cool' scene after another with 'mythical' pseudo-religious bullshit dialogue that doesn't belong on screen it belongs in the Wachoffskis' fucked up heads (one of them's more fucked up than the other, of course...). What a BOREFEST the sequels were.
March 15, 2007, 9:56 a.m. CST
Wachowski's Own!
by Saluki
Stupidest shit I have heard these past years is junk like "should be damned to hell for all eternity for permanently destroying the movie fight scene" WHAT KIND OF UTTER BULLSHIT IS THAT? They hire Wo Ping to do something kickass, get ripped off, and now they are to blame!? I suppose Cameron & Spielberg should die in a fire for all their early usage of CGI, right? Fuck off. Of course they just provided some rewrites on this one, and Vendetta Director (Matrix Assistant Director) James McTeague did the directing duties. Daniel Craig had my money a long time ago for this one.
March 15, 2007, 10:55 a.m. CST
In answer to your question, Teamwak.
by DonkeyTron
The Wachowskis were sued by Sophia Stewart for plagiarism after she saw The Matrix in 1999. She claimed many of the ideas from her manuscript, "The Third Eye" which copyrights back to 1981, were lifted wholesale. Now, I will say that the lawsuit was dismissed because of Ms. Stewart's failure to make a court date. However, like I said in my post, it becomes painfully obvious that their ideas were not their own when you look at the sequels and the fact that they failed to present anything new except a bunch of blathering, new-age bullshit about destiny and free will and the much-loved "cave rave".
March 15, 2007, 11:09 a.m. CST
Thanks DonkeyTron
by Teamwak
A proper answer. Cheers
March 15, 2007, 11:34 a.m. CST
Anyone who so venemously hated Matrix 2 & 3...
by Johnno
Has no credibility with me. You didn't like the movies... okay, not your thing, fine... Have some criticisms about acting or pacing or whatever, okay... But by calling them utter shit and attempting to make yourself sound credible by throwing in a few relatable words like 'religious' and 'pseudo' or other jargon like you even knew what you were talking about is just too damned funny.
March 15, 2007, 11:36 a.m. CST
I was "in" the faculty, too.
by Doctor_Sin
And by that, I mean I slept with a couple hot lady teachers in my time.
March 15, 2007, 11:50 a.m. CST
Religion is so pseudo-Matrix
by Spandau Belly
Seriously, these church guys so ripped off the Matrix, except their sunglasses aren't as cool.
March 15, 2007, 11:53 a.m. CST
To Saluki
by zoomddy
Absolutely they're to blame for killing the fight scene. Sure they did great stuff, but they beat it to death across three movies, which utterly undermined its coolness in part 1. They overdid it, and everyone followed their lead. I would leave them alone, if they had kept parts 2 & 3 to themselves and left well-enough alone.
March 15, 2007, 12:56 p.m. CST
You so right Jackie_O
by zoomddy
That rave was the stuff of nightmares. I remember sitting in my theater seat just utterly baffled as it went on . . . and on . . . and on . . . and on. I fear the possibility of an "Extended Cut" of the film where the rave lasts for 84 minutes.
March 15, 2007, 8:03 p.m. CST
This is REALLY sad
by Edward Brock
So, WB take Oliver Hirschbiegel, one of the best directors to come up in recent years (Mori credited The Experiment, but he also directed the incredible Downfall) and end up f***ing up his movie? Also, kinda sad to watch the Wachowskis reduced to studio puppets. But maybe they did this only to get the green light for Speed Racer. It didn't work for the Exorcist prequel and I doubt it'll work here.
March 16, 2007, 12:19 a.m. CST
by Master Bruce
March 16, 2007, 8:08 a.m. CST
Remake Back To The Future
by misnomer
and Raiders of The Lost Ark! sign the petition at www.fuckyouhollywood.com............
Aug. 3, 2007, 2:52 p.m. CST
Get a life people!
by dance_girl
If you don't like what is being made in the film or tv industry, then don't watch it. It's not that difficult and if you want something original and don't like what the professionals are coming up with, then quick your lack-luster bitching and do something about it. Write something original. Constantly complaining on sites like this one doesn't change anything. Just bitching about what you don't like won't change it. Do something about it like; come up with your own original idea and submit it to people. Get in touch with the right people and let them know how you feel about the remakes being done and what you call horrible movies. Are you the professionals who decide what is bad and what is good? No! You are just regular people like me that has an opinion, but unless you express that opinion to the right people things will not be changed. I've been reading your responses on here and I've got to say that you all have absolutely no lives what-so-ever. You are all the lamest people and the most ignorant people I've come across in a long time. Who cares if a woman who used to be a man makes movies. It doesn't make them any less of a professional. Only an ignorant bigot would boycott something because it was made by a trans-sexual or a gay man, or even a lesbian. To all of you out there that have nothing better to do with your lives then bitch about something instead of seeing what you can do to change it.......GET A GOD DAMN LIFE!
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A boy who grew up in Chazy was killed Tuesday in an accidental shooting in the town of Fort Edward.
Authorities say Gary Cota, 13, was handling a shotgun with a friend in a bedroom of the Cotas' home when the gun went off.
Police say they haven't determined yet which of the boys was holding the gun when it went off. The victim's parents and several other children were home at the time.
Cota and his family reportedly moved to Fort Edward from Chazy last year and the boy still had many close friends in the North Country.
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Jim Myers passed away on May 4, 2005, due to complications from colon cancer. Jim served in a number of roles during his 10 years at Dri-Eaz, most recently as Education and Product Development Manager. He was a certified IICRC WRT and ASD instructor, and also contributed his leadership on many water damage restoration industry committees.
Jim joined the restoration community in 1986 as the owner/operator of his own carpet cleaning and restorative drying business in western Washington. He preferred the restoration side of the business, and in 1994 decided to sell his firm to join the team at Dri-Eaz to specialize in restorative drying equipment and education.
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War, Economy and Patriotism
There was some tool of a right-wing apologist on the radio on my way to work tonight complaining about Obama's stimulus package.
I have no problem with conservatives themselves, mind you – just apologists in general, whether they are liberal, conservative, religious, scientific or any other flavor.
This moron asked, "When has government spending EVER improved the economy?"
Now, regardless how you feel about the details of this specific package, you would have to be a liar, or completely ignorant to state that history does not show that government spending improves the economy.
Being that this guy was a right-wing apologist, my assumption is that he is a liar.
Why? Because it has been a tag-line for conservatives pretty much forever, in justification of war, that war is good for the economy.
Apparently this guy has never heard of perhaps the most successful government-funded economic stimulation in recent history – World War II.
That's what gets me about these conservative apologists… They have no problem spending government money at all, but rather than having improved infrastructure as a result, they'd rather spend it on wars.
I do not consider myself a pacifist, but I do believe that the only just war is a defensive war. That's really beside the point, however.
This got me thinking …
World War II thrust us into decades of economic prosperity.
It seems that war in general, has always been good for the economy – especially since war has been mechanized and industrialized. That is, right up until about Viet Nam.
Why is that?
I thought about the differences between WWII and the latest Iraq disaster.
WWII boosted the economy and Iraq dragged it down.
The concept of government spending to boost the economy is fairly simple, especially the war model.
You create government contracts, companies get those contracts – which helps them, and they must hire people.
The more middle class people you have spending money, the better still the businesses do.
While the government went into debt to finance the war, it is the people and businesses who reap the benefits and get that money.
The government is US. Tax money is OUR money. Complaining that the government is spending money on US is ludicrous – what else should they spend our money on?
Furthermore, the better people do, the less the government has to spend on social programs AND they recoup their losses through sales tax on all that crap people can afford to buy now, and the more they buy, the better businesses do and the more they hire.
It's an upward spiral.
So why did Iraq break the bank and NOT stimulate the economy?
The people didn't get nearly as many jobs and the businesses that had the politicians in their pockets did it cheaper by out-sourcing, importing and manufacturing overseas.
The executives of the companies got rich, but little of the billions in tax dollars spent to fund the "war" got back into the pockets of the people who own the purse – Americans.
Now I keep hearing right-wing apologists argue that the "buy American" clause in the new stimulus package is a bad thing because we would do better off getting the materials cheaper from foreign companies.
That is simply moronic.
Government spending will always boost the economy when that money is spent to help Americans.
It is OUR money.
To take that money and get cheaper products overseas and to outsource labor defeats the whole purpose of government spending.
If you import and out-source, rather than buy local, you send your money overseas rather than use it to bolster the economy by benefitting Americans.
It's not about getting a new bridge for cheaper, it's about getting more people to work and getting more money in the pockets of the working class.
It's not that difficult a concept, really.
If your town has to build a bridge, either they can take YOUR tax dollars and hire people and companies from your town to build it – thus helping members of the town and bolstering the local economy – or they can hire an outside company and siphon that money OUT of the town.
What's funny is that I remember when I was a kid, so many on the right lambasted people on the left for not buying American products. You would NEVER see a Republican driving a foreign car.
Democrats were accused of not being patriotic because they spent their money on foreign goods to save money.
I agree with them.
The more you spend in your community, the better your community does – and that concept carries out in concentric circles.
Now it seems there has been a complete turn-around and the left is being lambasted for all the "Go Local" campaigns.
I heard someone say the other day that community service is a Socialist ideal.
Community service is the very core of patriotism in my book, and used to be in the Republican book as well.
This is part of why, while I consider myself more of a Republican in political views, I have distanced myself from the party and do not think there has been a Republican President since Ike.
I am disgusted with what has happened to the party since the "New Conservative" movement started.
Patriotism used to be about caring for others in your community and country. Wanting them to be prosperous, because that benefits us all. Serving your community and supporting it. Now it seems so-called patriotism is a blunt weapon with no real meaning, used to bludgeon liberals.
It's foul.
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The people didnt get nearly as many jobs and the businesses that had the politicians in their pockets did it cheaper by out-sourcing, importing and manufacturing overseas.
And there's the crux of the problem right there.
On the subject of patriotism , I find it interesting how many self proclaimed patriots from the right claim to love America - but seem to hate Americans.
Fairly typical of the far right - they beleive in very abstract ideals (God and country, Family Values, Freedom of the individual etc etc) but seem to lack amny meaningful or constructive way of applying these into real world values
The limited government, fiscally responsible, respect for individual ideal of the Republican Party is what appeals to me most, everything else not so much. And unfortunately it's that everything else that'll keep the party from ever being able to truly govern in a conservative manner.
one_raven: What I hate about the way certain politicians and media figures have, for the past few decades, taken over conservative talking points is that it ends up discrediting conservative ideals without good reason. ie. Bush managing the feat of completely discrediting the idea of a free market system without every practicing free market principles. I hope you can see that these people aren't the ones you should be turning to for actual conservative views, and that there are legitimate arguments against government spending and stimulus, and arguments as to why it wasn't WWII that got us out of the Depression. You'll find that those making these legitimate arguments manage to avoid the cognitive dissonance I mentioned earlier, and criticize war spending of all stripes.
I'll not post a link to the thread because I don't think its fair on the parties involved, however there was an excellent example on these boards fairly recently, when one of the usual extreme rightwing loonies gave another boarder a hard time for choosing to stay with his family for certain personal reasons.
Ironically said rightie has claimed on several occasions to support family values - yet it would appear that when presented with someone else who has them and actually expresses them as part of his lifestyle, he is unable to spot that fact.
I think its because most right wingers are in fact secretly very submissive - they are attracted to powerful and comforting sounding ideas from powerful and charismatic authoritarians, and as submissives they instinctively want to be protected by, and be submissive to them, but at the same time are given a vocabulary that allows them to project a tough macho self reliant facade to hide their submissive tendencies.
Look at the behaviour of the less intelligent righties on this board within this context and you'll see exactly what I mean.
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The discrediting of the free market created in mortgage-backed derivatives, in consequence, was completely legit - it was a classic example of a free market left to fend for itself as far as enforcing rules and defending from pirates and cheats.
The difficulty is that free market advocates have forgotten about the existence of a real world, in which industrial scale free markets are delicate and sophisticated sociopolitical arrangements in need of constant regulation and defense by a competent government. They are a kind of game, in which failure to enforce the rules leads to breakdown of the entire operation.
Modern "conservatives" don't seem to understand this.
Outsourcing for cheaper labour and production costs is free market, isn't it?
In Vietnam, Iraq, etc there was no such general destruction of the rest of the world. So all we had was a normal, temporary bump to the economy from increased war expenditures and a huge debt. That's all government spending can do. It creates a temporary bump. To get the kind of bang we got following WW2, we'd need another world war that would, like WW2, destroy the competition while leaving the US unscathed.
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We spent a fortune helping other counties rebuild from the devastation.
Where did that money come from? Taxes.
Where did a lot of it go? American industries.
The build up in our technical and industrial prowess benefitted us much more than other countries being devastated.
While us being relatively unharmed during the war was a great benefit, the direct beneficiaries of this build up of our industrial infrastructure was the American people, and the results of that had effects that far outlived reconstruction.
Regardless, any stimulus plan is not intended for long term growth and lasting results. It is a temporary fix that has undeniable effects on the economy.
Government spending DOES improve the economy - if the beneficiaries of that spending are the people and industry of that country.
If the American government creates jobs that will put money in the pockets of the American people it WILL create an economic boom that will allow us to address the underlying problems which caused the slump in the first place.
It's a stop-gap measure.
voted against Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Read the entirety of his statement, clearly it's not this conservative free market advocate, and others like him, that have forgotten about the "existence of the real world".
But I fear your (incorrect) version of how things played out, and the role of the free market in it, will remain the mainstream view.
New Rule: neomercantilists, neoconservatives, and statists are no longer allowed to call themselves "free marketers." People who call themselves free marketers such as Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke are the primary threat capitalism faces. These false prophets of capitalism are the greatest friends that proponents of socialism have.
Many prominent American figures claim to be proponents of free markets but in practice advocate neomercantilist, corporate welfare policies. These policies eventually, and unsurprisingly, lead to disastrous economic and social consequences. These catastrophes are then blamed on capitalism, free markets, and deregulation, at which point, socialists are easily able to convince the distraught public that capitalism is a failed experiment and only massive government intervention in the markets can save them. Such is the way that capitalism dies, eaten away by a cancer from within.
The real mystery is not that some of the loudest proponents of free markets often institute policies that are antithetical to free markets, but that the general public, as well as learned scholars, rarely challenge these claims. In general, the public simply accepts that if a person claims to believe in capitalism and private-property rights then they are truly capitalists. In truth, most politicians who claim to be champions of free-market principles are anything but.
Just a heads up, I have a really well-written essay that I will post tonight regarding these exact topics. It's very long but well worth the read.
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Here are the most read news stories of 2011, according to web statistics compiled by the Peninsula Clarion.
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Umberto Lombardo from the University of Bern in Switzerland and an international group of colleagues from other institutions reported the discovery of the first hard evidence that man was living in and active in the Amazonian areas of Bolivia as early as 10,400 years ago in the Aug. 28, 2013, issue of the journal Public Library of Science.
The scientists investigated three of the hundreds of waste dump islands called middens found in the Bolivian Amazon. The mounds were previously attributed to termite activity, erosion, or possibly early human activity but not as far back in time as carbon dating has determined.
A layer by layer examination of three of the middens using core sampling produced evidence of human activity and habitation as far back as 10,400 years ago.
The mounds showed evidence of humans from layers of charcoal from burning, fresh water snail shells, and human bones. The oldest layer contained only snail shells. The upper layers contained pottery fragments, human bones, and bone tools.
This is the first known evidence that hunter-gatherers lived in this area of the Amazon in Bolivia during the Holocene. The mounds offer evidence that humans lived and apparently thrived in the region for over 6,000 years.
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Has anyone has success with a PC change from a Southwest Visa to another Chase credit card?
Do you not fly SWA and that's why you want to dump the card?
Just curious, as this is the next card I would REALLY like to add, but not if it's not all that it is cracked up to be.
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Do you not fly SWA and that's why you want to dump the card?
Just curious, as this is the next card I would REALLY like to add, but not if it's not all that it is cracked up to be.
Usually with "Partner" Credit Cards they will not allow PC.
I use to have Starbucks Card and that was PC only because it was discontinued as a program.
I have a Speedway Gas Visa now and it cant be PC at all! and I know longer live in a state that has the gas stations...
Actually also curious about this, just incase I would want the CSP down the road if for some reason I start using another airline more.
Repoed - I like the SW RR card. I have the premier, 99 AF, primarily got it for the 50k points, but it has been a pretty good travel card. I usually vacation or happen to have weddings at SW destinations, so you get all sorts of bonus points for booking SW partners, flights purchases are double points on top of the points you get for flying the flight. No foreign exchange fee as well if you are abroad.
rewards seem adequate if you dont want to do points for flights, gift cards at retailers, the usual.
If you fly SW just a few times and utilize hotel and car rental partners you can earn the AF (which they basically offset with the annual cardmember bonus points anyway)
I fly SWA fairly frequently, as they fly direct to my home in Tampa as-well-as Ft. Lauderdale for the DF.
Snagged a $5 flight on new years ever (using points)
Nice! I'm in Tampa as well. SWjust added San Juan for April 2013, looking forward to summer vacation thanks to points!
I have a CSP and I feel it's redundant to have both. I already took advantage of the 50k bonus points.
I'm going to try to do this in December, so I hope it is possible. I love the sw card, but we had a baby this year and are flying united more as well as driving more. The csp allows us to get points for both united and sw flights as well as double points for hotels/rental car, etc. at least that will be my pitch. I have to wait until a year since I have the $69 AF version and have to overcome the card act.
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The proposed ballot measures that would allow a private casino now has the backing of a big labor group.
Measures 82 and 83 received the endorsement of the Oregon AFL-CIO Thursday. The federation of 55 unions threw its support behind the proposed casino complex that would result if the measures pass because project developers promised that the complex would be built with union labor.
Construction of The Grange would provide 3,000 jobs, union officials said. If approved by voters, the project would feature an entertainment complex in addition to the casino. It would be built on the site of a now defunct dog track in Wood Village.
AFL-CIO leaders said the construction jobs would have pensions, health care and good pay. PDX Entertainment said construction would begin shortly after the election if the measures pass and would be complete sometime in 2014.
The AFL-CIO also said it is confident the 2,000 permanent, full-time jobs would be middle-class-wage jobs with health care benefits.
"I don't know if they'll be union or not," said Tom Chamberlain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO. "The employees have to make that decision, but the developers have agreed that they will not interfere with those workers' rights to join a union."
The developer also announced a partnership with two builders: Anderson Construction and JE Dunn Construction.
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But the Einstein's static model as a possible GR cosmological solution has been falsified.
1. By the observation of Hubble red shift, which not be there in a static GR model.
2. By the fact that such a solution would be unstable wrt small perturbations. Any perturbation would increase and kick the model into an ever increasing expanding or contracting solution.
3. Therefore, apart from the other observations and tests it would have to pass that I mentioned in post
, any resurrection of the model would have to include new physics and therefore be an unpublished new theory.
This new theory is a published already theory of Einstein known as general relativity. If you admit the conservation of energy (which is built into Einstein gravitation in a form of vanishing divergence of stres-energy tensor) then for a static space you get the Hubble resdshift roughly as observed for the density of matter in space roughly as observed. You may calculate it easily and exactly with Newtonian approximation of GR since it may be done for space with weak gravitational field and slow matter. If you do you'll see how it simulates the accelerating expansion, with observed acceleration, and that the dynamical friction of photons was never before calculated exactly. It was just
assumed to be negligible
by inventors of the Big Bang hypothesis to provide for their idea of expanding universe. Similarly the stuff about stability (note that we don't know how to solve 3 body problem, and the universe contains even more than 300 bodies, so how we can tell that this system is unstable?)
Regretable we can't write about Einstein's GR in a mainstream thread because certain calculations were neglected and now we need to pretend that we all believe that they were done and Einstein's universe was falsified. Have you ever seen the proof that there is no Hubble redshift in Einstein's universe (while energy is conserved) and that photons fly in it
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According to its leaked product road map, KTM is because of update the SuperDuke for the next model year (meaning we need to start seeing "spy picture" teasers any day now).
Designated at the KTM Super Duke 1200 R, we can just presume that the new model from Austria will showcase a v-twin motor suits the 1,200 cc displacement category, though KTM has been well-known about having its number classifications almost lining up with the bike's actual displacement.
For 2014, the KTM Super Duke 1200 R will be the basis of an additional model, the KTM Adventure 1290, which will upgrade the current KTM Adventure 990, and bring KTM more in-line with the offerings from BMW, Ducati, Yamaha, and so on
While we await those interesting new models from Team Orange, Italian industrial designer Micro Sapio has actually penned this concept of a KTM Super Duke 1200 R. Unfortunately, all we have is the front and back shots, making fully-appreciating the renders a bit of a difficulty.
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Right now, at this very moment, there are groups of people in the state of Wisconsin who are in an uproar. They are angry about the actions of their government. Their actions could not only decide the fate of their bargaining rights, but the existence of their unions entirely. There has been a lot of […]
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There seems to be a new go-to rhetoric in this country- that we should be able to kill those we don't agree with. This is seriously frightening, and simply not right. What's worse is that this may actually have an impact on real policy, and get real people killed. Bill Maher was on The Tonight […]
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February 22nd, 2011 by Eli Johnson
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- Release Date: Aug 21, 2007
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Mar 7, 2013I bought this game based on the lofty overall ratings. The setting is nice, but I feel strongly that this game gets too much acclaim for the story while the gameplay is only average. In a market crowded by great first person shooters, Bioshock's gameplay is only good enough to recommend to diehard FPS fans dying for another game to play. If you value immersion and story a lot, I guess you might want to check it out. If you value gameplay, you really should check out any number of rival FPS games before Bioshock.… Expand
May 23, 2011Things started fantastic, the atmosphere, graphics, sound were great
then things started to go wrong
the shooting mechanics are clunky, when you die you go to a deus ex machina chamber, it's too easy and frustrating at the same time!
Thank god steam does refunds.
Oct 8, 2013Bioshock is a boring, clunky, overly streamlined, and an overall overrated game. It has a great story and would've been great if it was a movie or a book, however it's a horrible game. The game play is dull and un-fun, it's not scary, and it feels like it's stepping on the far superior System-Shock. Once again, Good for a book or movie, bad for a game.
Jan 11, 2013After Doom and Quake followed some decent first person shooters over the years. Some managed to bring something innovative to the genre. Not Bioshock.
Clearly, Bioshock is an over-hyped title artificially pumped by a generation of console gamers with nothing better to play at the time. The PC version was like a bowl of oatmeal: Entirely unmemorable, borderline unpleasant.
I forced myself to play through a few levels and the mediocrity of it all quickly forced me to uninstall before the critical 1 hour mark. When a game makes windows tools like defrag feel fun and exciting, it's not a very good game. I'm sorry I wasted 20$ on this. It taught me never to listen to hype ever again!
In short: One of the worst "me-too" FPS games ever. Avoid.… Expand
Sep 14, 2010From the greatly positive reception i expected a great game, however i found it nonsensical by the trailers. Well in short: easy, boring, repetitive combat, exploration and mini-game(one kind but you can do it way too many times). There are good ideas in it too, like the photographing and the different effects of some plasmids on the environment but these does not save the game from being confusing and boring at the same time.… Expand
Mar 10, 2012one of the worst fps i have ever played, everything is scripted, the ai sucks, the story sucks, the art is avrage/corny everything takes along time to load and gui is terrible. I want my $ back
Sep 11, 2012Bioshock shamelessly rips off System Shock 2 and does a poor job of it. Insulting, shallow, extremely linear gameplay, backed up by a very poor story, dimly realized characters, a shoddy console interface, and incredibly repetitive scripted events. The final boss fight has to be one of the low points of modern PC gaming. The occasional "wow factor" scripted scene can't cover up a console slog that was dated when it was released. I beat the game when it came out and immediately regretted purchasing it. Judging from the Metacritic froth, a lot of people out there will give high marks to an interactive B-horror simply because it has skyscrapers under the sea. And viral marketers writing fake reviews. Can't forget you lot. Viral marketing rim snoodlers are the bane of the modern internet.
If you aren't a marketer and genuinely think Bioshock is an awesome game then you simply don't know computer games, because even for this exact sub-genre (Action-Adventure-RPG) Bioshock is poor. Star Control 2 is an awesome AAR. Thief 2 is an awesome AAR. System Shock 2 is an awesome AAR. Deus Ex is an awesome AAR. Bioshock is merely an average game that never comes remotely near the heritage it aspires to match, even as it shamelessly desecrates its corpse.… Expand
Dec 30, 2011Pros: The storyline was good The graphics and setting are good Cons: The combat is terrible. The plasmids are supposed to be so cool, but they are really just magic spells with a different name. The level design is terrible. It reminded me of Doom 3 -- it was all "run down a dark corridor, and shoot the thing that will inevitably jump out from every dark corner or doorway".
Seriously, this game is boring enough that I uninstalled it after a couple of days trying to get into it.… Expand
Mar 21, 2012Intriguing sight at first, boring and repetitive just a bit later. Not to mention designers' knack for filling game with cheap scares, such as sudden noises, power outages etc.
Sep 25, 2012Having played System Shock 2, I was expecting something really great from Bioshock, but it's mostly shallow eye candy. It would have been okay if the story was good, but to me it seemed like it pandered to teenagers a bit. Overall, not much to engage you besides mindless shooting
Aug 1, 2013dont get me wrong the story was awesome and the graphics were incredible! but i find the gameplay very boring and unprofessional, people keep telling me i need ''skill'' to play the game but i beat it on the hardest difficulty!!! fountaine was super easy to kill and i dont like the fact that they never show his face, say his name, or that he only talks once in the whole game and that was at the biggening when hes on the plane! idk does anyone agree?… Expand
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Sep 29, 2011I really don't get why this game is set on such a pedestal. The theme is interesting and I do so love anything that trashes ayn rand, but it runs dry pretty quick. I didn't even finish the game, I found it so dull and even frustrating. I think I got to the gardens or something and just gave up.
I wasn't having fun, the combat was absolute garbage, the theme was getting boring and the plot was, well starting to get predictable. The graphics also were garbage, everything was fairly simplistic with only some shallow upgrades .. etc etc.
I'll give it a 3, one each, for the sunken underwater setting, the early entertaining audio logs, and letting me shoot at objectivists.… Expand
Jan 6, 2011Just a plain shooter. Expected something like Deus Ex, but this was just **** YOU EVEN CALL THIS A RPG?? I played about 8 hours, but didn't have fun at all. The story didn't get running. (I don't know if it will). I expected more of the plasmids, but they were simple and boring. At least I didn't pay more than 4 euros from this steaming piece of hype.
Jul 12, 2014Bioshock is not a good game. It's not at all a good game. Bioshock has focused nearly all of its efforts on tricking the gaming public into thinking it's a good game, which is why it is one of the worst games in all of history. I am a person who is all about immersion, but the immersion in Bioshock is intensely contrived. In other words, it knows you like immersion, and it's trying to manipulate you based on that. The people who made Bioshock don't like immersion, they just knew they would get awards and critical acclaim for it. Every 'great moment' in Bioshock is not Bioshock saying it thinks it's a great moment, it's Bioshock saying 'You'll probably think this is great.' I don't know how that passes for the public, but it doesn't pass for me. I want some honesty. If I'm not hearing what actual human beings think about something, then it's a waste of time
The gameplay is geared to a mind of about 3 years of age. You walk around, you shoot things... the end. A few extra bits like magic, minigames and photography are in there, but they add nothing interesting and just serve as a waste of time. Normally if your game is all about walking and shooting, it is made up for with interesting level design, interesting enemy behavior, or something like that. Not so in Bioshock, that's the whole game. You walk, you shoot, you walk some more, and then you shoot. You listen to some bad voice actor reading some boring dialogue about something you don't care about, then you watch a cinematic with some of the most shallow pointless characters ever, TELLING you you're supposed to care, but really truly finding that you don't.
This is the most shallow game I have ever played. It makes almost zero attempt to present the player with something true and good, something that someone worked their heart out on and truly believed in, Instead you can sense the developers behind the scenes thinking, "The inferior masses will eat this up." And you did. Nobody at 2K Games cares one iota about Bioshock. They care only about money and prestige. It's not a game made by people for people, it's a game made by people for mindless zombies who have no respect for their own views on important issues.
Oh! It's a game with MORALS. Good, because I'm too much of a child to figure that stuff out on my own. Thank you 2K Games, for treating me like I'm stupid and morally bankrupt. Thank you for standing up as the standard of goodness so that we know that anyone who disagrees with you is evil… Expand
Jul 16, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. oing beyond "run and gun corridors," "monster-closet AIs" and static worlds, BioShock creates a living, unique and unpredictable FPS experience. After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no… Expand
Jun 2, 2013Loved the atmosphere and the story, but the gameplay is EXTREMELY lacking.
Everything gameplay-wise is poorly designed, from the frantic looting to the poor puzzles and messy equipment window.
Jul 20, 2013Well, this game is awful... why? VITA CHAMBER... I can not think of any other easiest game than this one... what's the point on playing on HARD difficulty if those damn vita chambers resurrect you anytime you die?!!?! I literally beated this game using the wrench 95% of the times, I even beated big daddies with the wrench... BORING!
Jun 25, 2014ok so i just went out and bought all the bioshock's and naturally i stated with this one. i must say this game is so boring played for 5 hours and haven't had any fun yet. the other ones better be better. i have no idea how this game has been rated so highly the game play is terrible and the story isn't even that great. im pissed off to say the least what an overrated piece of crap i can honestly say i had more fun play cod ghosts.… Expand
A dark and astonishing masterpiece...I spend my career, and my gaming life, waiting for a moment when a game just astonishes me, when I can't believe what I'm seeing, what I'm doing. BioShock has five. [Sept 2007, p.66]
The hours spent playing this masterpiece were the perfect encapsulation of why videogaming is such a favourite waste of time for so many of us. Thrilling, terrifying, moving, confusing, amusing, compelling, and very very dark. BioShock isn't simply the sign of gaming realising its true cinematic potential, but one where a game straddles so many entertainment art forms so expertly that it's the best demonstration yet how flexible this medium can be. It's no longer just another shooter wrapped up in a pretty game engine, but a story that exists and unfolds inside the most convincing and elaborate and artistic game world ever conceived.
There is art here, despite what many would say isn't possible with games, from Roger Ebert to game designers like Hideo Kojima... BioShock stands as a monolithic example of the convergence of entertaining gameplay and an irresistibly sinister, engrossing storyline that encompasses a host of multifaceted characters. This is an essential gaming experience.


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This wasn't bad at all. But the truth is that I've had better mulled wine. Maybe it was the wine? I've read that cheap wine makes the best mulled wine. I guess I will go on and try other recipes and have this as a backup ;)
Mulled Wine
Photo: Alexandra Grablewski; Styling: Lynn Miler
Yield: Serves 8
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 191
- Saturated fat: 0g
- Protein: 0g
- Carbohydrate: 13g
- Fiber: 0g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Sodium: 8mg
- 2 750ml bottles red wine
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 12 whole cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon allspice
- 1 orange - cut into 1/4 inch slices
- 1 lemon - cut into 1/4 inch slice
- In a large saucepan, combine 2750ml bottles red wine, 1/3 cup sugar, 3 cinnamon sticks, 12 whole cloves, 1/4 tsp. each ground nutmeg and allspice, 1 orange and 1 lemon (both cut into 1/4-inch slices). Place saucepan over medium-low heat and bring wine mixture to a simmer. Simmer gently for 20 minutes. Serve warm.
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- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Meatless
- OCCASION: Winter
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@"Cat damage is in a good place, druids are happy that it's not a "faceroll" spec, and I think Blizzard is happy with that as well. PvE-wise, I don't think we have a lot to worry about."
I've always found this a bit unfair--maybe I've not seen it from the super-endgame levels, but... Cat DPS, which requires mastery of a complex rotation to obtain said high DPS, doesn't suffer as much from the dreaded hybrid tax. Yeah, you can't self-heal as well in kitty, but you get a lot of tools due to shifting into tank form.
Maybe I need to play cat more to "get it", but I'm assuming that there are addons that lets you know what buttons to push when -- thus making life simplier and taking the edge off of a complex "if X then Y" rotation. (My druid has only /ever/ been Resto -- RAF to 60 then leveled him through LFG as a tree only.)
Whereas other classes that are not afforded rotations that are quite as complex and have no way to up their damage (as much) through proper situational mastery of that rotation.
However, it seems that Cataclysm will be homogenizing this too -- cat rotation getting cleaner (i.e. more faceroll -- at least according to the wishes of the devs) and more complex rotations are being added to some of the other classes. (Ret in particular.) I just hope that the devs will stick to their guns that all DPS should be close to one another -- some better than others, but not miles apart.
We'll have to wait and see. I'm not a big fan of the healing homogenization that's going on, but with DPS... it seems to be shaping up to be better.
dillonwelch said...
Speaking as a feral dps here:
1) "Yeah, you can't self-heal as well in kitty, but you get a lot of tools due to shifting into tank form. "
And the last time I tried to switch into bear form to save the day using said tools, Toravon squished me in about 2 hits. If you don't have the proper talents you're still not going to be an effective tank.
2) "but I'm assuming that there are addons that lets you know what buttons to push when -- thus making life simplier and taking the edge off of a complex "if X then Y" rotation."
And there are addons for other DPS specs to help with their complicated parts (the ones that have them that is). There are addons to make healing a lot easier too (Grid, Decursive, etc).
Even for classes that have "simple" rotations, I have found that the skilled players who take the time and effort to practice their rotations and read up on the interwebs tend to find ways to eke out the extra dps.
I've done very little feral dps with my druid, but realistically, you cannot put out competitive dps as feral without being fully specced and glyphed for it. Even then, you have to keep up a bleed debuff, at least 2 bleeds, an attack power buff, and you have a positional requirement (you have to be behind the mob to use shred, mangle is a significant dps loss). One bleed comes from a combo point builder, and the bleed debuff generates combo points, but all other abilities require combo points. Plus you have Tiger's Fury to keep on cooldown, and Berserking on a 3-min cooldown, and you don't want to use them both together. Oh, and don't forget feral faerie fire. Barkskin is nice for predictable damage spikes, or even when you just took damage to give the healers a little more time to top you off. However, since you are fully specced and glyphed for feral dps, you cannot even tank 5-mans unless you have a really good healer because you will take a *lot* of damage.
Kitty dps is by far the most complex way to dps of any class I've tried, and I have all classes except shaman to 70, five classes to 80, and a shammy at lvl 60.
karoline.berstad said...
You HAVE seen the feral kitty flowchart, yes?
It boggles the mind. I've played a druid for ages and ages, and I still can't understand how to do that!
dillonwelch said...
It's simple. John %*)$ing Madden is all you have to do.
In all seriousness, at minimum finding out a good buff/debuff tracker (I use tellmewhen) helps a lot with the "rotation." Lots and lots of practice will help too. And raiding at
dillonwelch said...
(Lets try this again, comment system cut off the second half of my comment)
It's simple. John %*)$ing Madden is all you have to do.
In all seriousness, at minimum finding out a good buff/debuff tracker (I use tellmewhen) helps a lot with the "rotation." Lots and lots of practice will help too. And raiding for a long time will eventually get you that practice, I've been raiding as feral dps for the majority of Wrath (moonlighted as a bear for the very very beginning) and I'm still learning new things.
Agree with dillonwelch, cat dps is so far from facerolling that even reducing some complexity will be a lot more than what other classes deal with. You HAVE to stick to a very strict rule based on state. Any mistakes in choosing what ability to use at any time will likely result in a significant dps loss. To get to that level where we are on par with pure dps requires a very high level of gear, skill and departing from any talents that give us any utility just to eek out a bit more dps. And even then, rogues usually have the upper hand in dps plus a lot of utility.
I like where feral dps is in terms of dps, but the JFM can definitely be a bit more forgiving than it is now. The way Cata is putting pure dps talents into the mastery and allowing choice of utility talents is definitely a great way to go for the feral tree as right now we are forced to choose dps over utility.
(the following is my 2 cents, take it for what it is, 2 cents)
Homogenization wise, anything that has to do with the actual resource system, rage, energy, mana, should be homogenized to some degree. The basic premises of gaining said resource at a certain rate to allow abilities to be used at certain rates should pretty much be the same. The abilities we use with these resources to do our job, however, is where we should differ. The preview of classes in Cata gave me a feeling that Blizzard doesn't really follow any strict pattern, homogenizing and differentiating in both camps.
Take the rogue combo point transfer for example. Combo points are a resource that is directly shared between rogues and feral druids. Both need combo points as a resource for certain abilities. Moving to a new target is a dps loss for both rogues and druids because of combo points (not the only reason but still a considerable chunk). However rogues got the combo point transfer and as far as Blizz has let known, druids didn't. I have an issue with that.
Adding an interrupt, however, is a rogue ability that will be given to feral druids as well. Kitty druids have one interrupt in combo point using Maim, which is actually a incapacitate like the Rouge's Gouge that has no combo point requirement, but with a silence effect, but not on players or bosses, which makes it pretty much useless since it gives our dps a complete nosedive. Adding a reliable interrupt is definitely a quality of life enhancement, but at what cost? This is where I think the case of homogenization is bad.
Basically rogues press an icon with a shoe on it that makes the rogue do a roundhouse and interrupts spell casting, and druids presses the same button with a different icon and maybe a unique animation (highly doubt it considering the amount of unique animations we have received in the past which is FOUR, one left paw hit, one right paw hit, an up to down rake and a jump(which really isn't unique, just the distance and duration of it), the rest are all spell glow effects in front of the cat). The end effect is a boring duplication of a rogue ability.
I hope Blizzard will put in some more thought in making the ability unique to the druid class, not just a copy of another class's ability with added restrictions to gimp it just for the heck of the hybrid tax.
When dual spec came out, Feral DPS was my offspec for months and months. I studied the priority list on theorycrafting site and I installed addons like BadKitty/FeralByNight to try to maximize my DPS, and I still lagged behind other DPS, especially on any fight where there was the least bit of movement, or where a tank would not stand in one place.
I finally gave up on kitty and went tree. Now that they're taking away tree, and feral DPS is going to become "more forgiving", I'll probably be going back to it.
@ Karoline.berstad
The only hard thing about kitty dps is watching over your one buff, four debuffs, energy usage and combo point maintenance AND cool down usage while being aware of the fight your doing. The only real hard thing there is knowing when to use ferocious bit.
So basically you go in to a matrix like zen state where you can watch all these things and perform like your neo dodging bullets from a chain gun or... you head explodes. And that's why we love it.


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Punters backing 200/1 nags at Aintree today were probably more optimistic than those expecting to see a Phil Neville goal at Molineux.
The Blues skipper hasn't scored for almost three years and, with the exception of Tony Hibbert, was probably the least fancied from open play in the Everton side.
Yet with the visitors having survived a hairy opening 20 minutes and leading through Jermaine Beckford's header, Neville showed the class of a true thoroughbred.
The ball reached him on the edge of the box and he crashed it back across goal and into the far top corner to leave the crowd, both sets of players and a sizeable television audience stunned.
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Long throws and corners rained down on the Everton box as the Blues defence creaked at the seams. The visitors looked rattled, wasteful in possession and Moyes' frustration on the sidelines was visceral.
Leon Osman cleared Steven Fletcher's goalbound header off the line as the net gaped, while the visitors were exposed time and again only for the final ball to disappoint.
The breakthrough seemed only a matter of time but, as happens so frequently in football, it came at the end nobody was expecting.
John Heitinga was quickest to a second ball in the middle of the park and pierced the Wolves defence with the outside of his foot. The in-form Osman collected it wide right and curled a cross perfectly onto Beckford's forehead on the edge of the six-yard box.
There was only one outcome and, as the ball hit the net, all that early gusto evaporated and the hot air gushed out of Molineux like a badly-punctured tyre.
The gravity of their plight suddenly became all the more apparent and the ruthless Blues showed them little mercy.
Wayne Hennessey denied Beckford another headed goal before the crowd was treated to a collector's item.
The Welsh glovesman clawed away a potential own goal from George Elokobi and, as Beckford fed Neville on the edge of the box, even the most hopeful of Blues supporter wouldn't have tipped him to dispatch it so viciously into the top corner of the Wolves' goal.
The beleaguered hosts were all over the place and Magaye Gueye raced through one-on-one but failed to mark his full debut with a goal as he was thwarted by the keeper's legs.
The third was just around the corner, however, as Bilyaletdinov's wonder strike all but settled matters and saw the angst and despair inside Molineux replaced by rancour and recrimination.
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Britax has determined that the hinge on the B-Agile, B-Agile Double and BOB Motion stroller's folding mechanism poses a fingertip amputation hazard when they press the release button while pulling on the release strap. The hinge can also break fingers or cause severe lacerations, among other injuries. Britax has received eight incident reports, including one partial fingertip amputation, one broken finger and severe finger lacerations.
Do You Own It?
The recall involves Britax B-Agile, B-Agile Double and BOB Motion strollers. The following model numbers are affected: U341763, U341764, U341782 and U341783 for the B-Agile strollers; U361818 or U361819 for the B-Agile Double strollers; and U391820, U391821 and U391822 for the BOB Motion strollers. Consumers can find the model number and the manufacture date in YYYY/MM/DD format on the label located on the inside of the stroller's metal frame near the right rear wheel. The single and double strollers were sold in various color schemes, including black, red, kiwi, sandstone, navy and orange.
These strollers were sold in major retailers and juvenile products stores nationwide, and online at Amazon.com, albeebaby.com, buybuybaby.com, diapers.com, ToysRUs.com and other online retailers from May 2011 through June 2013 for between $250 and $450.
What Should You Do?
If you own a Britax stroller included in this recall, consumers should stop using the recalled strollers immediately and contact Britax to receive a free repair kit.
Consumers can call Britax toll-free at (866) 204-1665 from 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM ET Monday through Thursday and 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Friday, visit the company's websites at www.britaxusa.com or www.bobgear.com and click on "Safety Notice" at the top right corner or on "Learn More" at the bottom center of the page, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
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