RunPee can do this with movies, easy.
Except that pointing your cameraphone at the screen in a movie theater will generally get you kicked out.
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Jessica - Dec 04, 2012 9:38:11 am PST #22994 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2012 9:43:51 am PST #22995 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think the RunPee app has a thing where you press a button when the movie starts, and if you have your phone on vibrate, it will go off at the designated pee moments.
(I haven't tried it, but I feel like I read something about it.)
le nubian - Dec 04, 2012 10:04:16 am PST #22996 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
jessica,
good point, but I only need to make sure sound gets to the phone, so I don't really need to point it at the tv at home. I can use Into Now if the tv is loud enough.
you'd probably need to turn the phone's screen brightness down though.
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2012 10:08:24 am PST #22997 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He really needed to do something small and speedy after LOTR and so far he hasn't.
Why? What does this do?
And yes, runpee does what Steph says--vibrate goes on (there are still viewers who will be disturbed by this--I got a guy pretty angry when I saw a movie while on call) and then you can read what happened before you come back to your seat.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 04, 2012 10:16:04 am PST #22998 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
IMO (and this is only my opinion) it would be a good antidote against bloat and pretension.
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2012 10:17:52 am PST #22999 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there a pattern of that?
Sophia Brooks - Dec 04, 2012 10:23:23 am PST #23000 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have never seen Phantom, because my hatred of Sarah Brightman poisoned the show. Also, I am not sure it was a very good show.
Scooby Doo (and Shaggy) do not belong solving mysteries. They are dumb and annoying. I was a very serious child, and I loved mysteries, and I really could not understand why Velma and Daphne and Fred hung
Frankenbuddha - Dec 04, 2012 10:24:34 am PST #23001 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I thought King Kong was wayyyy too long, though I enjoyed a lot of it. Everything I heard about the Lovely Bones sounded like it was a failed prestige literary adaptation. And now the expansion of Hobbit to three three hour plus movies has me worried this is a pattern, not a coincidence. It's like he's releasing his extended editions as first run.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 04, 2012 10:25:13 am PST #23002 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I was a very serious child, and I loved mysteries, and I really could not understand why Velma and Daphne and Fred hung
Shaggy was their dealer?
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2012 10:37:16 am PST #23003 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But Frank, that sounds like you want him to do short movies, not that doing a short movie right afterwards would cure him of the Oscar infection. After seeing LotR, I don't think that has anything to do with awards--after the box office and general reaction, I bet he could do anything he wanted, especially in genre. And he likes big fancy effect-laden movies. A lot.
I just skimmed the IGN review, and I think this is pretty much 100% Jackson and what I was expecting:
Once the quest proper begins, though, The Hobbit, like the book, becomes a relentless series of chase scenes and action episodes
So far it feels like the extended Fellowship pacing, and I'm good with that. I get that he errs on the side of shoving more material in, but based on the Ring movies I don't think he'll drag it out thinly--just that he's likely to stuff in a lot of stuff that's not exciting before we get to where he starts stuffing in the fun bits,