Sunday, July 11, 2010

My love/hate with movie commericals

I watched "Predators" on opening night and I have to say I liked it a lot. But one thing really ruined it for me. It was not the actors, the special effects or the plot, it was the trailer for it I watched a few weeks ago.

There is a scene in the commercial when about a dozen red triangle targets are pointed at the main character signifying that he was being targeted by multiple predators. I was waiting for that to happen in the movie and it never did. This annoyed me greatly.

This is one of the many reasons why I believe there should be rules for movie trailers. If they are not followed, people will be hung in the town hall for all to see how evil they are;
  • Commercials will not show scenes that are within the last 30 minutes of the movie.
  • Commercials will not show plot twists that are within the last half of the movie.
  • Commercials will not show scenes that were deleted from the movie.Commercials will not show scenes that were changed from the movie unless it was make specifically and obviously for the commercial.
  • Commercials will not show all the good parts of the movie so there is nothing left interesting to see.
  • Commercials will not show the entire plot of the movie
  • Commercials will not show reviews from people no one has heard of
  • Commercials will not use the term "of the year" or "of the decade" in it. (Especially when the year just started!)
  • Commercials will not not show scenes so quickly as to not actually be able to see anything.
  • Commercials will not be shown more than twice per TV show they are being shown on.
  • Commercials will not pretend to be child friendly only to have a lot of adult content in the actual movie.
  • Commercials will not pretend to have a lot of T&A in the movie to have little or none.

Did I miss anything?

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Bad Breath

The Pros and Cons of being a mobile app developer based on provider

Android (google)
Pros:
  • Very easy to use and program for
  • Very straight-forward production with google
  • Growing user base with lots of different features
  • 70% payment on apps
  • Friendly company
Cons:
  • Need to watch out for interfering apps
  • Rampant development piracy which makes it hard to make money
  • have to take way too many peripherals into account for your app

RIM
Pros:
  • Very easy to use setup
  • Insanely large user base
Cons:
  • 50% payment
  • no freedom to use phone features
Apple (iTunes)
Pros:
  • 70% payment
  • strong sandbox design
  • strong marketplace
  • friendly company
Cons:
  • Random approval process
  • steep learning curve for development
Windows Mobile (Microsoft)
Pros:
  • VERY easy to program
Cons:
  • small user base
  • older versions did not work at all
Pick your poison

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Twilight in the garden of Edward and Jacob

I read this off one of those motivational posters and loved it.

"Twilight is about a woman who has to make a choice between necrophilia and bestiality"