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is that mean the price will go up?
Bryian Tan
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If enough idiots buy into it...
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Some of the account cshtml files use the hgroup tag, and some don't. None of the cshtml files created when you use scaffolding to create a view uses that tag either.
The chaos continues, unabated.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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Looks like some of the templates haven't been updated to match the latest recommendations:
The <hgroup> element has been removed from the HTML5 (W3C) specification, but it still is in the WHATWG version of HTML. It is partially implemented in most browsers, though, so is unlikely to go away.
However, given that a key purpose of the <hgroup> element is to affect how headings are displayed by the outline algorithm defined in the HTML specification — but the HTML outline algorithm is not implemented in any browsers — then the <hgroup> semantics are in practice only theoretical.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Usually, when I get to see older movies in movie channels these days, many things feels funny. It's the same movies, that I used to be mad about watching over and over but now I'll be able to see a lot of flaws in scripts, graphics, actions. I just giggle at them thinking, "how on earth we could afford to watch it even once?".
Even many of the horror movies, that used to thrill like Evil-Dead & other ones like Godzila-Vs-King Monster, the old King-Kong, Jaws-1 all feels so silly and absurd. The rubber fish, yuk.
I happened to see Predator-I couple of days back. I can't believe it's made in 1987. It felt like a brand new movie. The concept, the graphics, and the whole set looked very practical. It's totally future-proof. I think it will last for even more decades.
John McTiernan - Should be a talented man. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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It looks better than it would now. Now the creature would be a dude in a green suit with a computer animation overlay. All the other actors would be responding to a dude in a green suit rather than a wonderfully constructed, animatronically-enhanced, costume.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Yeah, you know it's a big turn off when one gets to see the "green" tricks behind the scenes. I started avoiding these purposefully. It totally spoils the depth & experience of the movie.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I tend to agree, however Jaws was creepy (true rubber shark) but the shark puppet didn't work for most of the film and there was a lot of working around. Also the original King-Kong should be viewed as the first use of practical special effects for the time.
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glennPattonWork wrote: King-Kong should be viewed as the first use of practical special effects for the time.
Yup, we should really take the year[^] into account. It's 1933! And it's an amusing one. I don't have any dislikes for it.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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King Kong still p****s on any of its attempted remakes from a very great height.
Metropolis was made 6 years earlier (1927) and that still looks amazing.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Just look at the robot Maria and you can clearly see who later borrowed that idea and turned it into the first gay robot ever.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Indeed - and that one still looks pretty fresh for a 40 year-old sci-fi flick (even if they have remade it several times over come up with some amazingly original prequels and sequels).
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Look Antony Daniels took the job on 'tar Wars to work with Alec Guiness...I am pretty sure.. made in an age when story ruled...unlike today...
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Quote: "how on earth we could afford to watch it even once?"
That reminds me last time I tried to play Match Day on ZX emulator. 
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been there 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Sometimes even low budget movies have surprisingly effective practical effects. How about the robots Huey, Dewey and Louie from Silent Running (1972)? They are also R2D2's grandpas, as George Lucas later borrowed the idea. Then again, what idea did he not borrow somewhere?
Silent Running - YouTube[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I think that one of them makes a cameo in one of the original trilogy too.
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It would have been even better if it had featured Kevin Spacey as the predator 
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Nah. They would've had to CG him out of it and replace him with Christopher Plummer.
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From when I was very very young, one of my favorite movies was the Japanese Sci-Fi Flik (a genre unto itself!) "The Mysterians". I basically remembered the scenarios, but with streaming video, I got to see it again.
It really is, as you say, funny. Trite dialog, palely disguised nationalistic comments) an portrayals of non-Japanese, and . . . the robot.
A giant ray-spewing robot - complete with a rather large conical nose that servers no purpose. Painted light-bulbs on the end-game human response to the invaders.
This before the total decline of their industry as evidenced by what they made of Godzilla.
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Been done before but it's still hard to get past the lead actor as a "hero" and then later the same guy becoming a less than zero (aka "politician")
on re-watching movies: Brazil (1985) - and if you've never watched it make it your next movie
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But one silly thing 'Man Portable Mini Gun'..... 
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Predator still looks "nice" because the setting is simple, jungle, stereotyped military guys, monster. It can be set in pretty much any era, then and now.
I watch Demolition Man the other day and it did not aged well.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Sounds like somebody doesn't know how to use the three seashells.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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A great movie. The original actor cast as the predator was Jean Claude van Damm; there is film of him running around the jungle in a lobster costume!
I still watch it form time to time: one of Arnie's best films.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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