Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: THX is to Movies what AIDS is to Humans

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-20-2002, 02:18 PM:

Hilarious!

Click Here!

This page briefly also talks about "Fandango" whatever that is.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-20-2002, 04:02 PM:

"Fandango" is an on-line movie ticketing service:
http://www.fandango.com

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Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 08-20-2002, 05:06 PM:

Read his review of SPEP1, total rockin stuff.

This guy is funny. Joe, you should extend a hearty invitation for him to join our little forum, maybe liven things up a bit.

Dave

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-20-2002, 05:19 PM:

The spoof on THX and Fandango is kind of funny.

But what's really funny (and not in all that good a way) is how this guy claims he has the best website in the world. I thought Film-Tech was the best web site in the world (at least it is one of the ones I visit the most).

What do I see at that one dude's website? Big clunky Arial type and web page formatting that is old by even 1995 standards. Is Arial the only font on this guy's computer? The large type looks like something styled for an elementary school textbook for myopic kiddies wearing coke-bottle lensed glasses. If he's going to claim to be the best, he's got to have some waaayy cool a:hover, a:link, a:visted, a:active CSS pseudo class rollover text effects and a lot of other DHMTL and Flash action that takes forever and a day to download. Yeah, buddy.

Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 08-20-2002, 06:22 PM:

Other guy not digital - therefore number two !!

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 08-20-2002, 06:50 PM:

I think this site was meant as a form of cynical tyrade, not to be taken to seriously. I disagreed with 90 percent of what he had to say, but I loved its complete lack of respect for all other human biengs on the planet. This is the kind of humor usually atributed to old men.

Dave

Posted by Aaron Haney (Member # 747) on 08-20-2002, 09:55 PM:

Pretty funny, although he stole the "I will kick your ass" idea from someone who tried to auction an ass-kicking on eBay.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-21-2002, 02:13 AM:

At first I thought that perhaps this was a website that Joe had created under an alias.

By the way Bobby, did you notice that the entire site was written in VI? Scott will tell you what a fabulous program that is.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 08-21-2002, 01:12 PM:

vi rules, Brad. I admit that most of my WWW pages were either written in vi, or are generated by Perl scripts written with vi.

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-21-2002, 02:06 PM:

No it doesn't. Vi is the most evil program in the world. I've ranted on it before if you care to do a search.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 08-21-2002, 04:01 PM:

Ah, Brad, you just like the word evil since it has "vi" in the middle of it.

Maybe if you had a THX certified copy of vi, you'd like it!

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-21-2002, 04:14 PM:

haha, pretty funny. I never noticed that.

Of course that doesn't make up for the fact that Vi is annoying as all hell. Where's Scott when you need him? He loves Vi for some reason.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 08-21-2002, 04:28 PM:

Obligatory vi link: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi/

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-21-2002, 04:57 PM:

BBEdit for the Mac is better. Nothing but a blank page you type text onto. That is how I create ALL of my web pages. That's the only way I can be sure the code is compliant... if I write it myself one letter/number/symbol at a time.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-21-2002, 05:20 PM:

At first I thought you guys were talking about "Dreamweaver IV," but I see what you mean now by "vi". I'm not into text editors myself (I defer to apps like DreamweaverMX and GoLive 6 where I can see the design and the code).

As far as all code typed/generated being "compliant," that's a tough balancing act if you are trying to be compliant with really old computers and really old web browsers. Maybe 1 out of 10 or 1 out of 20 users out there are still farting around with a museum piece computer and version 2 or 3 web browser (or, God forbid, Netscape 4). To put the best visual kick into a website, you have to be willing to leave some of those users stuck in 1994 behind.

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 08-21-2002, 05:40 PM:

Dave wrote

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"This is the kind of humor usually atributed to old men"
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I just turned 63 on August 4th and enjoy all of the senior citizen benefits such as reduced movie ticket prices, discount meals and drinks at many restaurants and fast food places not to mention my senior citizen video rental membership at my local video store But do you know inside of my 63 year old body is the mind of a 25 year young man?

That man who wrote all that stuff about THX trailers is very way off from the way how I feel about them. I personally feel all of the trailers are real cool. You see? When was the last time did you ever seen or heard a 63 year old use the word "cool"? Getting back to the topic, who ever wrote that article should lighten up by taking some chill pills. Do you catch my drift, dude?

-Claude

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 08-21-2002, 06:18 PM:

Obviously Claude you are not an old man. I am referring to real old men, that feel old and act old.

In my physical therapy group, there are these two old guys, about 80+, that go on and on about anything and everything. They bitch and moan about the dumbest things. Just the other day they were complaining that vietnamese children are all criminals, but they seem to have a good grasp on computers. This was an hour long bitch session and thats all they really got out.

I NEVER plan to get that old. Claude, the fact that you use the word "cool", means you also refuse to grow old as well. Here is to the permanently young club.

Dave

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-21-2002, 07:08 PM:

Dave is the permenantly young club chaired by a chap named Pan?
His first name slips my mind you kow how it is

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-21-2002, 07:16 PM:

The article really must be taken with a grain of salt. His entire site is written in a way just to be as politically incorrect as possible, which is why I find it humorous especially in this age of super-polictical correctness. Just the fact that he says it's "The Best Site in the Universe" and it is so ugly makes me chuckle. For some reason I like his article "I Am Better Than Your Kids". Why would anyone write something like that? To make me laugh, that's why.

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 08-22-2002, 09:34 AM:

Yeah, I agree Joe. Not much should be taken literally there. I thought it was kinda funny, myself.

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