BTW, those actors who think they are talented are often hurting themselves. If they instead looked for their weaknesses and spent their time trying to improve, they would have a much better chance.

No, I'm claiming they're most likely more talented, specifically because they have more credentials than your sister's friends. Jennifer Garner has a long resume. Furthermore I'm claiming that actors who think they aren't famous because they don't have 'connections' also typically lack talent.

Maybe your sister's friends are special, but that would be rather unusual, wouldn't it?

This one from 2000 is similar :)

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you V'Ger fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a V'ger (a 8600/300 w/64 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Vorlon Pro 200 running MinbariOS 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this V'ger, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various V'Gers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a V'Ger that has run faster than its Vorlon counterpart, despite the V'Ger's faster chip architecture. My Narn G'Lan/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the V'Ger is a superior machine.

V'Ger addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a V'Ger over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

Jennifer Garner went to Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and Megan Fox has been trained in drama and dance since age five. Seriously, I doubt your sister's friends are any better.

In fact, they're probably crap because they already think they are good, and are thus closed-minded about learning more. Did they get a part in the school play or something? So impressive.

We're talking about different movies. I got the title wrong, it's "The Beach". It came out in the 90s, and is about Leo finding this secret commune colony on an island near Thailand and living in it for a while before some drug growers get mad at them and kick them out.

No offense taken mate.....I understand you don't have a sense of humor. It's not a problem!

Maybe next year they should try changing the mod capabilities. To quote (and at the risk of getting flamed into the last decade):

Wow, your comment is almost an exact repeat of what someone wrote in 2004! Check it out! You won't believe the similarity!

This comment thread is great, too.

Yeap. It was painful. A typical comment from the day:

And of course, the typical response:

Yep, that's about it. Too bad George didn't keep him (or other decent directors) for all the other movies he made.

And I'm not saying that episodes 4-6 were utterly fantastic movies in every way; obviously they had a good bit of camp (esp. #4), but that was part of the charm I think. They were never meant to be ultra-serious, "deep" movies with Oscar-winning performances (not that the Oscars are good indicators of performance quality these days anyway), they were meant to be visual feasts that were fun to watch while eating popcorn and watching it on a big screen. They had mildly interesting plots, decent characters, good comedic relief (thanks C3PO!), they weren't "dark" or "gritty", all in all they were great escapist entertainment, and while again not having top-of-the-line acting and script, what they had served the movies well.

That all changed with the Prequels. The plots weren't that bad and the characters might have been OK, the visuals were certainly great for the time (though too fake-looking, but lots of high-CGI movies of that era suffered the same problems), but the horrible acting and dialog really ruined it all, they broke the suspension of disbelief. (The obvious racist stereotypes in Ep.1 didn't help.) I've seen better acting on fan-made Star Trek episodes. And at least with the fan-made Star Trek stuff, you know going into it that this is what you're going to be watching. I don't expect to see amateurish acting in a $100M+ movie. And also, my expectations are much higher: I'm not forgiving of seeing a highly-paid professional actor deliver amateurish acting, while I am forgiving of an unpaid truly amateur actor deliver amateurish acting.

Actual quotes from April 1, 2001:

It would be nice if people like you could get the science fiction references........

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