
2011
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10 Bad Physics In Movies
Are Doctor Who’s fans the show's worst enemy?
The Doctor's worst enemy has been with him since near the very start. Eventually, they evolved into a terrifying force, one that ultimately helped bring down the Time Lord, driven by unchecked rage and an inability to comprehend simple human emotions. That's right: fandom. Shrill, blinkered and unhelpful, Doctor Who fans at their worst have done more damage to the show than any revelations of half-humanity, burping wheelie-bins or complex series-arcs. Recently, we managed to surpass ourselves by hurling abuse at Fern Britton for simply not liking science fiction. Her comments on the long-running BBC show Room 101 were staggeringly ill informed if you're us , but most people wouldn't entirely disagree with her.In the past few months, there appear to have been one or two corners of the Internet that have gone into panic mode over the news of two of the summer’s blockbusters scheduling reshoots. Firstly, there was The Amazing Spider-Man , for which director Marc Webb shot some more material several months after production initially wrapped. And then there were rumours (which proved to be unconfirmed) of The Avengers reshoots, right at the start of this year. “Hmmmmm, I'm not sure what to make of reshoots. I honestly can't think of any movie that I heard that was going through reshoots turned out good.”
Why reshoots aren’t a reason to hit the panic button
RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents
If there’s one organization known for its crusade against online piracy, it’s the RIAA. Nevertheless, even in the RIAA’s headquarters several people use BitTorrent to download pirated music, movies, TV-shows and software. And they are in good company. The Department of Homeland Security – known for seizing pirate domain names – also harbors hundreds of BitTorrent pirates. Last week we wrote about a new website that exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded using BitTorrent. The Russian-based founders of the site gathered this data from public BitTorrent trackers, much like anti-piracy outfits do when they track down copyright infringers.The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows
The same RIAA that makes examples out of ordinary folks by suing them for millions of dollars for file sharing? Turns out someone there's been pirating full seasons of Dexter. Nine million dollars worth. Whoops!The 25 Best Put Downs Ever
The Radio Times has published the results of the 25 best put downs ever from TV land, some of these are real gems: Basil Fawlty – Fawlty Towers. To Sybil: “Oh dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your eclair?6 Awesomely Bad CGI Sequences in Bigger Budget Movies
No one who frequents this site will argue against the awesomeness of exhaustive, expansive DVD/Blu-ray releases of our favorite films and series, like the recent over-the-top Tron: Legacy identity disc set. We can't get enough of that shit, and many of us are such completist fanatics, we'll happily slap down hard-earned gas money for the same movie three, four, even five times just to get all of the latest bells, whistles and "uncovered" bonus features that were conveniently still "lost" the last time a movie was re-released. But in addition to being fanatics, many of us are also organizational freaks. We want all of our DVD cases to line up perfectly so that we may display them proudly and impress people with our ability to spend a load of money and arrange small boxes neatly on shelves. And when we're denied the opportunity for that, like when studios think they're doing us a solid by offering ridiculous, bulky, knickknack-laden packaging, well, we like to piss and moan about it.

