Category: media

“Whereas a generation ago, dissent and biting satire were allowed in the ‘mainstream’, today their counterfeits are acceptable and a fake moral zeitgeist rules.”

It’s proving elusive, but creating digital actors who are believable could change the way movies are made.

Says the director of Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and the London Olympics opening ceremony, “It’s a tool, you know. There are sound innovations coming actually, particularly Dolby Atmos, which are going to do something very equivalent to what 3D does. So, I don’t know if 3D will survive to be honest. I think it may be a phase.”

“My challenge was to create a passable cyber-simulacrum of New York. Instead, I discovered a strangely addictive, deeply wonky experience, producing cities where I would never want to live. … The exercise of meaningless power is so enjoyable that at the end of a twelve-hour session, I barely stopped to wonder why I had spent so much of my weekend frantically building sewage plants.”

“Trade groups representing the video game industry — even the Entertainment Software Association, which seemed supportive after Obama’s proposal — now argue such research is unnecessary.”

Says one market analyst, “Sex scenes used to be written, no matter what the plot, to spice up a trailer. But all that does today is get a film an adult-only rating and lose a younger audience. Today such scenes are written out by producers before they are even shot.”

“The most frustrating part of the whole thing is that the Veronica Mars Kickstarter may end up unintentionally destroying projects with genuine potential.”

“The truth is that British actors are quietly taking the best roles away from Americans with all the effort of picking raisins from a scone.”

“We should be celebrating at this moment, but unfortunately it seems like we’re in the gutter looking for coins.”

Instead, check out the realistically violent brutality of “Game of Thrones.”