Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread ashok _
true... my point was that turning video games into movies does not really result in good movies. it is like watching a fat pimply teenager sitting on a sofa, playing the video game for me, and me being forced to watch it. On 3/5/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those criteria would

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Venkat Mangudi
ashok _ wrote: true... my point was that turning video games into movies does not really result in good movies. it is like watching a fat pimply teenager sitting on a sofa, playing the video game for me, and me being forced to watch it. But if the player is really good at it and better than

[silk] QotD

2007-03-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
What do you think of Quantum Computers, Erwin? I'm simultaneously for and against them. -http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/07feb/uf010023.gif

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
ashok _ wrote: [ on 12:36 PM 3/5/2007 ] by real i meant movies with a proper script, character definition, a plot etc... none of those Doom...Tomb Raider ...etc. really met any of the above criteria Apropos of nothing: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/2171 Udhay --

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes wrote: none of those Doom...Tomb Raider ...etc. really met any of the above criteria I disagree in the case of Tomb Raider but... De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum. Come to think of it, anyone seen the Mortal Kombat movie?

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 05/03/07 19:35 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Charles Haynes wrote: none of those Doom...Tomb Raider ...etc. really met any of the above criteria I disagree in the case of Tomb Raider but... De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum. Come to think of it, anyone seen the Mortal

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Suresh Ramasubramanian said the following on 05/03/2007 18:05: Come to think of it, anyone seen the Mortal Kombat movie? Yes. And the theme tune was everywhere for a few years. Does Ashok's question extend to movies made from theme park rides,

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread ashok _
Yes ... the whole gamut of it On 3/5/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Ashok's question extend to movies made from theme park rides, as well? I am not sure about the other way round... movies = theme park rides Or movies made into theme park rides? How about

[silk] Computer graveyards in Karachi/ Reba ki Diary: Karachi ki 'Computer breaking industry'

2007-03-05 Thread Frederick Noronha
FEEDBACK TO: Reba Shahid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer graveyards in Karachi/ Reba ki Diary: Karachi ki 'Computer breaking industry' Technological innovation has ushered forth an age of gadgets and a race to get the latest, fastest, sleekest computer. This in turn has reduced the life span PCs,

[silk] Stringfever - History of music in 5 minutes

2007-03-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Meng Wong pointed me at this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringfever Download the mp3 there and you'll find short 4-8 second clips from pieces like Greensleeves, Handel's Messiah, the William Tell Overture all the way to Smoke on the Water, the Jaws and Bond themes, the background music for the

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Bruce Metcalf
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: Does Ashok's question extend to movies made from theme park rides, as well? Or movies made into theme park rides? Watch it there. You're shooting very close to where I live! g Bruce Metcalf Lake Buena Vista

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 05-Mar-07, at 8:05 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: Come to think of it, anyone seen the Mortal Kombat movie? Yes. And the theme tune was everywhere for a few years. You ain't seen anything yet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JFBHPbEtfqA -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Biju Chacko
On 3/6/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05-Mar-07, at 8:05 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: Come to think of it, anyone seen the Mortal Kombat movie? Yes. And the theme tune was everywhere for a few years. You ain't seen anything yet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JFBHPbEtfqA

Re: [silk] The Xbox Auteurs

2007-03-05 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ashok _ said the following on 05/03/2007 12:20: my point was that turning video games into movies does not really result in good movies. Or, to restate the obvious, recoding a low resolution object, using a lossy algorithm, into another low