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Is it just my area, or does it seem like figures just aren't showing up? Seems like all the different lines are pegwarming, except the regular figures... they just seem way underproduced/shipped at this point.
Anyone else feel this way? I'm afraid Hasbro might be underestimating the popularity of SW right now and invested too much in the non-3-3/4" lines. The demand is high. The Carkoon wave has sold much better than I thought it would, and when a Hoth figure hits, it's gone almost immediately, even at these higher prices. When the Coruscant wave hits, I think those are going to be very hard to find due to the high popularity and demand for more ROTS stuff...
Wow. I'm just amazed to not see more product. They would have been much better off I think to have started off with 3-4 waves all at once come out, and have some selection available in the stores rather than to launch the new line with a wave here and a wave there... and constantly seeing empty pegs. Does that not take away from the effect of Star Wars collecting?
Hmmm.... I know it's still only January, but I think this first month has been a letdown. Not in quality, but in availability.
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January 26, 2006, 03:00 PM »
I'd say they're starving the market, for some reason. Figures evaporate in a few days, or unless your Bib Fortuna at Target, a couple weeks. Everything else gets stocked pretty regular (and some of it sits, too).
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January 26, 2006, 03:10 PM »
I would agree that though serious collectors have been able to get figures, the casual collector or kid probably has missed out on the figures that have come out. Hasbro is not shipping in quantities that ensure that there is enough product out there, and yes, the other rows of figures are sitting and peg warming. It is rather weird. Usually after a movie year we have a hard time finding product at all. I fear some may be 2 or 4 waves behind before much longer.
Another thought is what happens come summer? Typically in a non-movie year the waves in the summer are very hard to find as retailers back off inventory anticipating the fall/holiday season.
I guess on the other hand though, we might see what we saw with the last Saga wave where they ship and serious collectors got the figures. Then that fall, they reshipped everything back out in sufficient numbers so everyone could get em.
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January 26, 2006, 03:45 PM »
Are the lack of quantities due to Hasbro not shipping enough, or retail not ordering enough? My guess is the latter - stores are afraid to order stock with it being a non-movie year and are waiting for the next "big thing" to support.
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January 26, 2006, 04:09 PM »
I think that might be a lot of it too Jesse, retail is being shy since it isn't a movie year. This year is all about X-Men (which don't appear to have a "movie" line anyways), Superman, and Pirates of the Caribbean 2. That said, I really hope they start getting more product to the pegs as well. I guess I can't really complain, as I've been fortunate enough to find the first two waves aside from the Hoth R2 and Vader. But, on both occasions, a day after I found them the pegs were bare, and in the case of Wal-Mart, they still are. The only Saga Collection figures in town right now are 4 Derlins, 1 Veers, and 1 Rieekan at Target last time I was there. Carkoon seems to have come and gone right now, until it re-ships. I'm more than a little worried about the upcoming waves, and the VOTC figures if/when we see them. At least the last time we saw the VOTC, we had a big DVD promo going on and a movie the next year, so things were stocked a little more frequently. If this trend continues, it might be a difficult year, but its still early, so we'll see. Like I said, it was really just lucky timing that I've found anything at all, because to be honest the pegs have been empty probably 90% of the time this year so far. It is too bad, we could definitely stand some new product. Not just for collectors, but for kids too. Like JesseJames mentioned in another thread...he's looking for a couple of Fetts for the kiddos, and they are a tough find. I saw 1 Fett the one time I saw the Carkoon wave, and never since. The ones the kids would like to get seem to be tougher finds, as although I really like figures like Derlin and Veers, I doubt some kids are real excited about them. I'm hoping its just a "beginning of the year" thing, and not something that will continue. Best of luck to everyone in their searches though, hopefully it will get better.
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January 26, 2006, 04:15 PM »
So it seems it's not just my area. That's good (and bad) but I think things will get better. We must be optimistic.
The thing that hurts though, I think is that the retail space for the 3-3/4" figures is very small compared to the rest of the space alloted for the other stuff. I see just 4 pegs at the Targets, nothing at TRU, and anywhere from 4-8 pegs at Walmarts. About 90% of the Star Wars space is dedicated to the other crap, which honestly will end up on clearance.
Bread and butter Hasbro and retailers... ever heard of it? I would blame the retailers to an extent, but at the same time I think it's more Hasbro. They are the ones spreading the line thin with all these other gimmicks. Stick with the main line, and maybe test the waters with a couple of other new things too, but don't take away from the primary focus.
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January 26, 2006, 04:28 PM »
Yeah, the same thing is going on here. The basic figures have four pegs at Target, and I think about the same at Wal-Mart if I remember correctly (they're always empty anyways
). The majority of the Star Wars "section" is taken up by Unleashed Battle Packs, Force Battlers, Transformers, and lightsabers. Our WM doesn't seem to be carrying Galactic Heroes right now, although Target has four pegs for them as well. I understand they want to try different product lines for different age groups, but I'd really like to see the line streamlined a little. Have the basic figure line as the "bread and butter" as CHEWIE said, and then support it with a couple of other branch lines. Like I've mentioned before, ideally for me I'd like to see 7" Unleashed ("collector" line), Galactic Heroes ("kid" or collector line), alongside the basic figures as the main line. Of course, everyone has their preferences, so its hard to judge which lines should stay and which should go. It just seems like the basic figures are almost an afterthought in the Star Wars section nowadays, and that's a shame.
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January 26, 2006, 04:49 PM »
Yeah, that's the main problem from what I see. It seems that 90% of what what the Star Wars consume wants is the regular line, yet when you go to a store looking, 90% of what you see is from the other lines. If they want to kill the line by having a bad 2006, this would be an effective way of doing it.
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I opened 5 cases of hoth last nite and left 2 unopened-but this was at 4 WM's total
It seems retail is ordering 2-3 cases every 2 weeks typical of a non-movie year.
Jesse brought up a good point that it really isn't Hasbro's fault, they only produce/manufacture according to retail's demand. So, retail is to blame. However I don't see the pattern changing since retailers are aware/wary of recent busted non- movie year lines with several pegwarmers(ex: saga-original). I remember several pegwarmers in the POTF2 line as well. It seems in recent non-movie years retailers are ordering fewer case quantities per shipment- I noticed it starting with the OTC line, then post OTC and now-seemed like those figs couldn't stay on the shelf! Lessons learned from Saga line perhaps?
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Target is ordering more cases then WM but I can't verify since I don't shop at Target often enough and besides WM's cases stocked are usaually drained by the next day anyway(maybe because of lower prices?) so it's hard to speculate who's getting more stuff in now. I don't even bother with TRU or Kmart/KayBee anymore because they get stuff about once every 5 weeks
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January 26, 2006, 05:40 PM »
Jon, I see the same pattern at my closest Target as your Walmarts. They get a couple cases at a time, and they seem to replenish every 1-2 weeks.
That hasn't been enough to make any particular figure hang for too long. A "pegwarmer" so far means a Bib Fortuna or other figure that is packed at x2 or more per case that doesn't sell within 48 hours of being put out.
And I'm not sure if that's good or bad just yet. I can't say I've had a horrible time finding the figures I've needed, but I've also been peristant about the hunt. If I was, say, 25% more casual about the pursuit (or didn't have a Target that I walked through as a shortcut to the train station every day), I wouldn't be caught up.
At this moment (and I reserve the right to bitch and moan at the first incident of frustration later) I'm siding with the idea of a slow trickle of product over the notion of a landslide of figures so that there's a figure on the pegs for a kid to find 24/7. I say this because I'm dredding the thought of stores bumping up orders just in time for a turd wave like Geonosis to overorder on.
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January 26, 2006, 08:42 PM »
Don't forget, January is a sluggish month because all the stores are doing inventory. Things should pick back up soon.
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January 26, 2006, 09:06 PM »
Correct Anthony I made that point in other forum the other day about inventory time
Definately have to agree with Jared here...
All we need is a dudd wave to hit en masse then the retailers won't restock the new product due to lack of shelf space. The way it's going is fitting in with my go shopping 3-5 times a week schedule.
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January 26, 2006, 09:19 PM »
I havent even seen a Boba Fett so far...
But the wave is definitely going way too fast, there isnt much hope now for Commander Cody...
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January 27, 2006, 02:43 AM »
I hit five Walmarts in the Salt Lake City and great SLC area tonight. All put out the same things and I was sore amazed that they brought out three pallets that only had maybe four to five cases of stuff to put out (all non-Star Wars). So I think what were seeing is definetly the retailers not ordering heavy.
I mentioned this above, but does anyone remember with the orginial Saga that they hit pretty rapidily after a slow start, and then in late August early Sept. Hasbro re-released the figures in different case ratios so that everyone could get them? I remember that because I basically was able to make most of that fall off from hunting.
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My neck of the woods is starting to back up with stuff now.
Target(s) are starting to back up and I'm wagering this is due to price. They have been getting cases in, in fairly good quantity too, and they're backing up. Some figures are selling due to (I'm guessing) a panic. The Gonk Droid's like 1 to a case I guess so it's hard to find right now but hopefully not for long. I'd like a couple.
The Carkoon Wave and Hoth Wave are SLOWLY starting to sit though it seems, and then stuff like Fett and the Gonk are just selling steadily.
Now, at the same time Wal-Mart isn't this way. I see Bib routinely, and starting to see Han here and there, but that's it. I think the prices have people wanting to stick to Wal-Mart to shop... I broke down and got Hoth's at Target though, but WM is getting in less (like one or two cases at a time)< while Target gets a ton, and at a higher price, so they sit longer.
It's still dry though more or less. Stuff's just not out in big quantity right now. I think Hasbro missed a beat here between the shoddy distribution/quantity at stores during the holiday season, and now into the new year a month and there's still not a LOT to be had, and definitely very little for selection.
I think Hasbro lot a lot of potential fans over the holidays though when it was a real pain in the ass to get things for kids and whatnot. I know I've had trouble since November finding much... especially what the kids want. They want Fett's, I can't find a BF for the life of me for them (gotta get two for two boys). Clones were a pain to find over the holidays and I'm glad I got stuff early for the kids... It's rough out there.
And now I can't find a friggin' Gonk for myself, this is just silly.
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Election results in for Woodruff mayoral race
Election results in for Woodruff mayoral race
Results are in for the mayoral election held Tuesday in Woodruff.
Last November polling problems led to the election results being thrown out.
Lisa White, who came in second in the race for mayor of Woodruff, said she was told that voters who lived in Spartanburg County received ballots with Woodruff races on them.
There were also reports that voting machines shut down at 7 p.m. and voters were given paper ballots that did not have Woodruff races on them.
In Tuesday's election, Kenneth Gist received 392 votes and has been declared the unofficial winner. White came in second with 192 votes.
The incumbent Brad Burnett received 119 votes.
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Volume 18 Issue 20 | October 07 - 13, 2005
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Laura (Dina Korzun) paints a pretty face in 40 Shades of Blue, now playing at Film Forum (filmforum.org).
Fall films focus on relationships gone south
Sounding loves blue note
By Noah Fowle
Already making noise on the festival circuit, Forty Shades of Blue is a remarkable and harmonious combination of sounds and images that lay at the heart of great filmmaking. Set in the music mecca of Memphis, Tennessee, the movie, which won the Sundance Grand Jury prize, follows the relationship of an aging blues producer, Alan (Rip Torn), his young girlfriend, Laura (Dina Korzun) and his estranged son, Michael (Darren Burrows). Director Ira Sachs, who co-wrote the script with Michael Rohatyn, crafts a film that offers no easy answers, nor innocent characters, and the accompanying music, by turns lively and gloomy, buoys his sparsely written screenplay. Sachs, who is no stranger to his southern setting, made a stunning debut in 1997 with Delta.
At the films onset, Alan seems to be enjoying his waning years as a musical impresario. He has the respect of his peers, a beautiful woman by his side, and the clout to act as brash and unruly as he always has. Whether he is throwing a temper tantrum in the studio or consoling the nagging conscience of Laura, Torn deftly captures the sweet and curmudgeonly side of Alans character.
Laura, a soft spoken Russian beauty, seems to have relinquished herself to her role as Alans part time lover and mother to his younger son, until his eldest son Michael arrives at their home on the heels of his own marital problems. The two quickly find solace in their discomfort with Alan, and they soon cement the last cog in this bizarre, but accurately portrayed love triangle. They make attempts to keep their indiscretions hidden, but of course, its only fitting that these dysfunctional characters ultimately air out their grievances publicly.
40 Shades of Blue dodges the bland sentimentality of a father-son drama with its intense focus on Laura. While Michael gets to return and fix his failing marriage, and Alan finds comfort in his throngs of admirers, it is Laura who is cast out with little else than her young son to keep her grounded. Her silent tears and lost words provide the perfect illustration to the films haunting requiem, which threatens to overshadow the real performances of noted musicians Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge and J. Blackfoot.
Without leaving the audience disappointed, the film drifts into the credits with its characters feeling lonelier than when we first met them. Unflinching as the blues music it draws its influence from, the film takes an honest look at how relationships disintegrate and how hapless people are in the face of repairing them.
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Its relatively easy to hide content in Drupal using CSS, however its a whole different ball game to hide content and keep it accessible to all site visitors. Disabled web users may be using a screen reader or other Assistive Technology. For Drupal 7 we wanted a way to hide content that worked in all browsers and avoided many of the issues associated with current techniques.
The idea was to develop a new CSS class that could be applied to any element we needed to hide. We called this class .element-invisible and set about testing properties and values to make this work, in all browsers and all AT devices. First lets look at some of the current techniques we looked into and tested for Drupal 7, then I'll introduce a new technique I came up using the little known clip property and see how it stacks up - I think you'll be intrigued.
Update: A clip method was committed for Drupal 7.
Current Accessibility Techniques for Hiding Content
At the moment theres really only two methods that are in common usage - the text-indent method (not unlike the Phark text-image-replacement method) and using absolute positioning. Lets take a look at both of these and analyze their flaws.
Text Indent
This is probably the easiest to understand and implement - the text is given a large negative value to move it off-screen (outside the boundaries of the browser window):
.element-invisible {
text-indent: -9999em;
outline: 0;
The outline is zeroed out otherwise if the element is focused we will see the outline extend around the element and all the way off the screen.
The big problem with this technique is with RTL (Right to Left languages) - any way we deal with text indent there will be issues in at least one browser - in short, its just a bloody pain in the arse dealing with negative text indent and RTL, so much so it simply rules it out as a candidate.
Position Absolute - Collapse the Element
There are principally two main methods that use position absolute - one simply collaspses the element and the other moves the element off screen.
Lets look at the first one. This is pretty cool technique that sets the height to zero, hides the overflow and takes the entire element out of the flow of the document.
.element-invisible {
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
This is in fact the original method we choose to put into Drupal 7, it was clean, easy to understand and it worked in all browsers - or so we thought. This method has one major flaw and its the height property value (zero). The problem is with Apples Voice Over software - it interprets elements with height:0; to be invisible and does not read them out. This issue was first reported by Everett Zufelt back in Feb, 2010. Subsequent releases of Voice Over have not changed the situation (as of writing in any case). Both NVDA and Jaws screen-readers had no problems with this implementation so this was a real blow and meant we needed to find a new, better technique.
Position Absolute - Move it Off-Screen
One of the oldest techniques for hiding content accessibly is to move the element out of the view-port. Easy to grasp this technique merely sets a big negative top value to shift the element out of site.
.element-invisible {
position: absolute;
top: -999999em;
left: auto;
width: 1px;
height: 1px;
This technique is pretty solid and works in all browsers and won't give any hassles in RTL websites, however there are two main issues with this technique - its relatively easy to break, and it can cause a page "jump" if applied to focusable elements, which can be very confusing to sighted keyboard users.
Let say you apply this to an H2 heading, and then start adding other generic styles to all H2 headings - you can and probably will pretty quickly start having issues with this. The only way around this is to start adding many other properties and setting them to !important, so pretty quickly your nice simple technique is bloated and is going to end up looking something like this:
.element-invisible {
background: transparent none !important;
border: none !important;
display: block !important;
height: 1px !important;
overflow: hidden !important;
padding: 0 !important;
position: absolute !important;
top: -999999em !important;
width: 1px !important;
This is not so bad, but certainly rather crufty, but at a pinch it would get the job done - however we still have the big problem of the page "jump" issue if this is applied to a focusable element, such as a link, like skip navigation links. WebAim and a few others endorse using the LEFT property instead of TOP, but this no go for Drupal because of major pain-in-the-butt issues with RTL.
The Clip Method for Accessibly Hiding Content
In early May 2010 I was getting pretty frustrated with this issue so I pulled out a big HTML reference and started scanning through it for any, and I mean ANY property I might have overlooked that could possible be used to solve this thorny issue. It was then I recalled using
clip on a recent project so I looked up its values and yes, it can have 0 as a value. My first iteration was this:
.element-invisible {
position: absolute;
clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px);
At first I only tested this Firefox, IE6/7 and NVDA and it seemed to be working well. Problem was I used the depreciated syntax (no comma delimiters) and IE8 uses the recommended syntax while IE6 and IE7 will only work with space delimiters.
I left it for a while since there didn't seem to be much support for the concept and it is a pretty radical idea, however more recently support has grown and a better, cross browser implementation was developed by casey:
.element-invisible {
position: absolute !important;
clip: rect(0, 0, 0, 0);
\*:first-child + html .element-invisible {
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
\* html .element-invisible {
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
The strike against this are the browser hacks - since we cant load conditional stylesheets for Drupal core we have to do something like this in the system-behaviors.css file directly. Additionally this still does not solve the page jump problem, which I think can only be solved by using a position absolute LEFT/RIGHT method, however this could be very difficult to get working reliably and we just have to live with the fact that hiding focusable elements (pretty much the only one we would hide is the skip navigation link) comes down to a particular sites requirement.
The main reason I like this method is that is its 1) hard to break and 2) relatively lightweight CSS. I can live with the hacks - we have been for many years in Garland already.
I've now tested this in Firefox, Opera 10, Chrome, IE6/7/8, Safari 4 and 5 (but not with Voice Over) and NVDA - and it works. Additionally its very hard to break, in fact I haven't been able to break it yet other than re-declaring clip, which would be very rare indeed.
Unfortunately I do not have a Mac and cannot test Voice Over, nor do I have Jaws, so I'm out there also.
If you do have a Mac, or Jaws, please join the effort - you can read the entire issue here: http://drupal.org/node/718922
I have big hopes for the clip technique, if we can test it thoroughly and it works, we would have pioneered a brand new accessibility technique and one that could be most useful to many other websites and developers, not just for Drupal, but for disabled web users everywhere.
Update 23rd June 2010
Theres an off-left method in the thread linked to that uses left:auto; for RTL that seems to work well in early testing, this good news for those wanting to use this technique in Drupal.
Also we have tested the clip method in all major browsers and screen-readers (the newer method - see below) and found its working - both hiding content from normal visual display and being announced by screen-readers (Jaws, NVDA and Apple Voice Over).
The new method uses 1px value instead of 0:
.element-invisible {
position: absolute !important;
clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); /* IE6, IE7 */
clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
So what have we got to hide here...?
One of the commenters below (#5) asked about what it is we're trying to hide. In Drupal 7 we added proper H2 headings to most lists - such as menu link lists (main menu/secondary menu - this is done in theme_links) search block gets a heading if one is not set in the block settings, breadcrumbs have a heading also. Many "active" links get a hidden message and we envision adding other elements to help screen-reader users so having a reliable way to hide these elements from visual display is imperative (since sighted users don't need these)
I made a couple of screenshots that show some of these hidden elements - this is a basic forum post in Garland for Drupal 7. Pay attention to the main menu, breadcrumbs and the search block.
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Chas Harmon, a pitcher the past two seasons for St. Catharine College, has signed to play baseball next season at Lipscomb University.
At St. Catharine, located in Springfield, Ky., Harmon was 4-1 with a 2.50 earned run average last season. In 26 innings he struck out 33 batters and walked only eight. He began the season as a "Player to Watch" according to the magazine Collegiate Baseball. However, his season was cut short due to having to undergo "Tommy John" surgery.
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Lipscomb pitcher Alan Tungate also played for St. Catharine.
"I've played on teams with a couple of players who are already there," Harmon said. "The program is on the rise. Plus Nashville is a great city."
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Darkest Hour, The (2D) (US - BD RA)
In his darkest hour Gabe sits alone and watches yet another alien invasion film...
Young American entrepreneurs Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) travel to Moscow to sell their vaguely defined social networking software to Russian investors only to find their software has been hijacked and already sold by smarmy Swedish businessman Skyler (Joel Kinnaman). Dejected, Sean and Ben spend the evening drinking at a busy nightclub, where they meet up with a young American Natalie (Olivia Thirlby ) and her Australian friend Anne (Rachael Taylor), and eventually run into Skyler. That night something cuts the power to the club, sending the group outside, where they realize all of Moscow is dark, and an aurora borealis-like apparition has appeared in the sky. Glowing lights float down to Earth, then become invisible electrical forces that disintegrate human victims and blow holes in walls. Ben, Sean, Natalie, Anne, and Skylar escape the mayhem, and hide in a storage room for several days, a move apparently no one else in Moscow attempted, because when they finally emerge the streets are empty of life, and covered in human ashes.
In 2011 eleven alien invasion films were theatrically released, including Jonathan Liebesman's videogame inspired Battle: Los Angeles, J. J. Abrams' Spielberg inspired Super 8, Michael Bay's ridiculous Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Greg Mottola's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost comedy Paul, Simon Wells' kid-friendly Mars Needs Moms, D. J. Caruso's teen-friendly I Am Number Four, Joe Cornish's fantastic UK set Attack the Block, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s ill-advised The Thing prequel/remake, Jon Favreau's mega-flop Cowboys and Aliens, and Gonzalo López-Gallego's found footage moon landing film Apollo 18 (some could argue that Green Lantern also belongs on this list). The exact reasoning behind this flood likely has something to do with the success of the earlier Transformers films, and Neill Blomkamp's District 9, but probably has more to do with a deficient of creative energy burning through blockbuster Hollywood. Chris Gorak's Russian set The Darkest Hour, the eleventh of these films (released on Christmas) fits the mediocre mould set by most of these films ( Attack the Block notwithstanding), and actually might be the worst of a pretty bad batch (the only one I haven't seen is Apollo 18).
Gorak is better known as an art director and production designer on A-list productions, including Fight Club and Minority Report. His directorial debut was a modest biohazard outbreak thriller called Right at Your Door. Right at Your Door is a flawed, overlong film, but is a pretty impressive debut, and displays Gorak's skills with actors and melodrama. It's a pretty suspenseful film too, which might lead us to believe he'd be moving on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately, despite the budget increase and wider release, The Darkest Hour is largely a step back, seeing this promising talent dealing in bland genre clichés. There are shadows of the moral complexities found in Right at Your Door, and the stark imagery is occasionally almost stunning, but he can only fill his movie with so many shots of actors wandering around the empty streets of Moscow before even the most patient viewer passes out from sheer boredom. The best I can really do is credit him for a whole lot of unintentional comedy, which wouldn't have worked had he not taken the material so seriously. The ongoing joke surrounding the film as trailers started to be released last year was that The Darkest Hour was cheap, so cheap that it featured invisible aliens. At the low reported price of about $30 million, The Darkest Hour was quite cheap, and it is easy to assume the general lack of creature effects was largely responsible for this (there are some digital creatures, and they are among the worst I've seen in a decade, including any videogames I've seen in that period). Not to mention the fact that the film is entirely set in Russia, where producer Timur Bekmambetov likely gets cheap labour even cheaper thanks to connections he made while directing Night Watch and Day Watch (two of my favourite fantasy films of the last decade).
Screenwriter Jon Spaihts appears to be known largely for his unproduced science fiction screenplays, and has been hired by Ridley Scott to write this summer's upcoming Prometheus. Theoretically, Scott saw something promising in one of his unproduced scripts, because this one is a dull mess of unlikable characters and overused invasion movie tropes. The alien threat is ill defined and their weaknesses often nonsensical. Characters constantly spout assumptions about the threat and are more or less always spot-on, which caused me to throw up my arms in frustration over and over again (they can see your energy signature, but can't see through glass?). This might not be a problem based on the major leaps in suspension of disbelief inherit in even the best alien invasion films, but Spaihts' script attempts to fill the low-budget space with his unrelatable characters arguing about their situation. Then, to keep the plot moving, he has them make incredibly stupid choices, which in turn lead not to any kind of imaginative slant on the genre, but more arguing, and more incredibly stupid choices. I had originally assumed the under 90 minute runtime meant I was in for a brief experience at least, but this story is so mind-numbingly monotonous I found myself taking breaks to maintain interest. I quite like lead actor Emile Hirsch, and don't understand why he isn't staring in A-list releases these days. Word has it that he fired his agent following the box office failure of Speed Racer (a vastly underrated film), and since then he's gone from Oscar buzzed-actor (for Into the Wild and Milk) to appearing almost nowhere. His half-assed involvement in this sleeping pill of a movie is the most depressing element. Perhaps Oliver Stone can save his once promising career.
The Darkest Hour was shot in digital 3D using Sony's CineAlta F35 cameras, a system apparently known for its ability to mimic the look of 35mm film. Here in 1080p, 2.35:1 2D video the film looks largely perfect. Gorak and cinematographer Scott Kevan are clearly shooting with 3D in mind here and fill out the widescreen frame with information. There aren't many close-ups either, leading to a sharp and complex look featuring deep-set details on just about every shot. The sheer quantity of background detail is quite impressive, and often even clearer than the human eye could capture on its own. Contrast levels are set pretty high, which is great for the deep black levels, but a small problem for white levels, which blowout on the brightest highlights and produce thin haloes on brighter hues especially. Despite the apparent efforts to exact the look of 35mm film, there's generally very little in terms of digital grain or noise, leaving only these occasional haloes and blowouts to complain about. The film starts off pretty colourfully, dealing in natural skin tones, rich reds, and realistic cityscape hues, but once alien orbs start to appear the bulk of the colour is sucked out of the mix, leaving most warm hues largely desaturated to create contrast with the golden/orange 'alien' lights. The colours left over act as highlights against the nearly monochromatic backdrop, and are quite consistent and pure.
The Darkest Hour covers a lot of its budgetary shortcomings with fancy and aggressive sound design, and this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack never falls short of expectations. The stereo and surround channels are often busy with everything from natural city noise to surrealistic space noise as well as aggressive musical interludes. Even the relatively empty Moscow landscapes have an audible level of warm ambience and effectively realistic dialogue sound. The 'alien' attack sequences are the clear frontrunner moments for the track, including a whole lot of vibrating bass, and directionally enhanced 'shattering' effects. Workhorse composer Tyler Bates creates a pretty complex musical soundtrack, much of which even gets a solid surround channel response. Often the music turns to abstract alien noise which is wrapped throughout the speakers to a nice, round directional effect. Outside of Bates' efforts Gorak includes a whole lot of loud Russian pop, techno and hip-hop numbers that rock the hell out of the LFE, and echo effectively throughout the surround channels.
Extras begin with a commentary track featuring director Chris Gorak by himself. Gorak approaches the track intelligently, and comes well prepared with information about the behind the scenes process. His tone is a little dry, but he's consistently talking, discussing the production, the script, working with his cast and crew, and finds a nice balance between screen specific discussion and prepped info. Outside the tone, which he breaks away from on occasion with an amusing anecdote, Gorak's problem is one of kissing up to everyone a little too enthusiastically.
Next up is Survivors (8:10, HD), a bombastically cut short film featuring more (unnamed) survivors of the invasion in Malibu, Tokyo and Jalalabad. This short discusses the alien physiology in greater detail, and despite some bad acting features generally more interesting characters and brief plotlines. This world-wide approach would've made a much, much better movie. The Darkest Hour: Visualizing an Invasion (12:10, HD) is a general EPK featurette featuring behind the scenes footage, preproduction animatics, storyboards, FX tests, concept art, and interviews with director Chris Gorak, producer Tom Jacobson, VFX consultant Stefen Fangmeier, VFX supervisor Dmitry Tokoyakov, and cast members Emile Hirsch, Joel Kinnaman, Rachael Taylor, Max Minghella and Olivia Thirlby, all of whom try to sell the concept of invisible aliens as something special. The disc is completed with five deleted scenes with optional director's commentary (4:50, HD) and trailers for other Summit releases.
Once again, Darkest Hour is a boring, boring entry in 2011's long list of alien invasion movies, so boring it may be the worst of a generally mediocre lot. Director Chris Gorak still has a twinge of potential, but I'm beginning to worry about screenwriter Jon Spaihts, who has subsequently written Ridley Scott's Prometheus, which is my most anticipated film of this coming summer. This Blu-ray disc looks generally quite sharp and features an aggressive and effective DTS-HD soundtrack. The extras feature a decent directors commentary, a decent behind the scenes EPK, and a surprisingly fun extended universe short film.
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Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
Watched this one last night. Well there goes Emile Hirsch's good streak.
Disciple Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: Sweden Posts: 775
Just watched this tonight. It's awful! Definitely one of the worst films I've seen. I agree with the 3/10 rating.
It IS worrying that it's written by the same guy who wrote the script for Prometheus. (one of my most anticipated films as well) I have a lot of faith in Ridley though (one of my absolute favourite directors) and he'd never spend time on something that he didn't believe in 100%.
It IS worrying that it's written by the same guy who wrote the script for Prometheus. (one of my most anticipated films as well) I have a lot of faith in Ridley though (one of my absolute favourite directors) and he'd never spend time on something that he didn't believe in 100%.
pitdeadite Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 662
This would've worked better as a 30 minute "Outer Limits" episode.
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
Disc Details
Release Date: 10th April 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director's Commentary, The Darkest Hour: Survivors, Visualizing an Invasion, Deleted and Extended Scenes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Chris Gorak
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi and Thriller
Length: 89 minutes
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This study examines the use of Schools of Choice throughout Michigan over the last decade. Nearly 100,000 Michigan students use Schools of Choice to attend a school outside of the district in which they live. Participation has grown steadily, with enrollment growing by 144 percent over the past 10 years.
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Amend KRS 156.500 to require every board, commission, council, or other type of advisory or decision-making body created by state statute regarding public elementary and secondary education to regularly review data on participation of men, women, persons of different racial backgrounds, and persons of different socioeconomic circumstances in the programs for which that body is responsible; amend KRS 158.6455 to require that the scholastic audit review a school's planning in relation to the participation of men, women, persons of different racial backgrounds, and persons of different socioeconomic circumstances; amend KRS 160.345 to require a school council, prior to filling a vacancy, to review the current minority and gender composition of the personnel in the school to determine if there is adequate representation of the various groups; require the school council to adopt a policy establishing procedures for selection of a principal, including but not limited to meetings, timelines, interviews, review of written applications, review of references, and development of written criteria for selection; amend KRS 160.350 to require the local board and the superintendent's screening committee to receive training endorsed by the Department of Education when there is a vacancy in the position of the superintendent; require the board to establish written criteria to be used in selecting an applicant to be hired as superintendent; require the local board to adopt a plan for recruitment of applicants for superintendent, including minority applicants; and amend KRS 160.380 to define "district-level vacancy" and require the superintendent to establish written criteria to be used in selecting applicants to be hired in district-level vacancies; amend KRS 158.153 to conform.
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If you're in San Mateo County, and you're registered to vote, you probably just got a vote-by mail ballot for a County Board of Supervisors election. You probably also have received tons of fishwrapper ads and spam email from Gina Papan. (Wish I had *THAT* kind of money.)
Anyhow, Michael Stogner is one of the candidates. I like Stogner. He's been a CONSTANT supporter of the families and victims of william ayres, showing up for hearings and trials. He's posted updates on various forums that the victims watch for updates on the case. He's been an outspoken victim's advocate, and hasn't been afraid to criticize the D.A and the Sheriff for their shortcomings.
Here is a brief set of talking points from Michael G. Stogner's website:
- •YES on a balanced budget.
- •YES on pension reform, immediately.
- •YES on consolidation of fire services on a county-wide basis.
- •YES on Redwood City's Downtown Precise Plan development project.
- •NO on High Speed Rail in San Mateo County.
- •NO on Cargill's "Salt Flats" project.
In a recent interview with MenloParkPatch, Michael was asked by Vanessa Castañeda: "What would you prioritize if you got voted in?"
Michael's answer:
Obviously the most important one is the budget and also the unfunded pension, not that one supervisor could make anything like that happen. The very first thing I'd do is make a motion to rescind the citizen of the year award that the board of supervisors gave to Dr. William Ayers. The man allegedly molested hundreds of boys in San Mateo County. [Michael comments later that it was the "Lifetime Achievement Award" that was give to ayres, not "Citizen of the Year"]
I'd urge you to go look at his website, and then go fill out that box next to his name on your ballot, and send it in!


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|2008-05-05, 12:18
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So that people wont repeat this question over and over again.
Zentradi has been reconned with pointy ears ever since the Macross Movie.
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Gee, thanks ever so much. I'm not from the Macross old-school camp. I watched one of the older ones but can't remember which is it (the one with the main character who's into shooting footages with his camera--was that even a Macross?? Or am I mixing it up with Patlabor cos I was watching that at around the same time?) and can't really remember much of it either. And even then, I think I came in somewhere in between in terms of storyline and timeline.
Then came Macross Zero. I had no idea what the background was though I knew there was a very rich one (based on all the terms I could only half make-sense of). I was just happy (and probably too busy) staring at the beautifully animated flight sequences and those pretty, pretty jets (and not to mention the overall HQ art and animation).
It took Frontier to finally shove it into my face enough to make me sit up and learn. -.-;;
I had thought Michel being part-Zentradi might've been the case so I tried to catch glimpses of Ranka's ears but they're never revealed (at least as far as I know). I was already half wondering if the pointy-eared thing was really one. I couldn't find anything concrete to unrefutably support that suspicion of mine. Until now. So yeah, I suppose I really did mean that thanks.
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You're welcome. Oh Ranka is quarter Zentradi.
Now that I've seen Macross 7 again I found that Captain Klein Klan's problem with micronization may not be that unique.
Vividas was pure blooded Meltrandi that was cultured and micloned.
But even by human standards she's a giant woman when micloned.
In Klein Klan's case micronization affects her age.
If Klein Klan is a cultured Meltrandi, meaning she is a clone, her lolification may have something to do with her telomeres.
Telomeres are responsible for aging and cell regeneration. Telomeres mechanism usually limits cells to a fixed number of divisions.
Meaning Klein Klan is the runt of her batch. Poor girl.
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Speaking of characters, I just made a belated discovery that the voice for Luca, Jun Fukuyama, is also the voice actor for Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass...
Mr. Fukuyama is, urm, freakishly good, like Naomi Shindo.
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|2008-05-07, 06:45
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you should give Macross Plus and Macross TV series a spin. you can watch it on youtube.
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TBQH, Luca is more his norm. He even talks more or less like that in real life. Lelouch was a bit of a deviation for him. He said as much in interviews. He was pretty boggled when the director asked him to go as low as he could (OK, 'boggled' was an understatement. He went into full-panicked mode since it was out of the realm of what he normally does before getting told to just do it, being a pro and all).
I've heard him in quite a bit of things pre-CG, and even without pre-knowledge, I've never had a problem with telling when a character is voiced by him. I couldn't tell it was him when I first started watching CG. I suppose at the end of the day, it's all good since it's opened up new pathways for him, career-wise.
He has quite a wide range of tenor voices but as far as low voices go, Lelouch!voice is his one and only. So far, anyway.
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I guess I found out while I was playing Valkyria of the Battlefield, and heard his voice. I thought I heard Lulu, so I went and checked him up, and HOLY CRAP, he was credited with the role of Luca. I was just as surprised when I found out Naomi Shindo was credited with a certain 'infamous' character with a very feminine Kyoto accent, who, as we know, usually play a more tomboyish role.
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Well we know that he was around the destruction of the 117th Research fleet 11 years ago.
Ranka was orphaned and he took her in.
Along the line Ranka begged him to stop piloting. Even if she has amnesia instinctlively she knew he'll get killed out there if kept piloting Valkyries.
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While there's nothing clear cut, the way Ranka talked about how Ozma was safe now that he had a desk job implied that he had a pilot job in her memory. Since she thought that he was safe because he was now with SMS, that'd mean that his being a pilot within her recollection was while he was in the NUNS.
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The possibility of him getting back together with Cathy imo gives him a much higher chance of survival in Frontier. If it wasn't for the Cathy/Ozma/Leon secondary triangle I would have expected Ozma to bite it around 12-16 and would've had Alto inheriting Strike 1similar to Hikaru/Roy.
Of course they could hook them back up and he could still die which is a good chance of happening if one of the main 3 don't also bite it. I've always felt Ranka was a chance of dying due to how she's connected to the Varja and all but a translated line from a promo increases the chances if it isn't said soon.
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WASHINGTON — The sale of The Washington Post to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos rocked the world of journalism, but it was also a shock to the community where it's published: The hometown newspaper of the nation's capital city is no longer locally owned.
The Graham family, which controlled the paper from 1933 until the announcement Monday of the sale to Bezos, has been known for its engagement in local affairs, pushing for urban renewal and education reform, among other causes.
While some local leaders say they are saddened by the sale to an out-of-town businessman, their feelings are mixed with hope that Bezos — who plans to continue living in Seattle — will safeguard the paper's journalistic traditions.
"I was not prepared to see my hometown newspaper, which has outlived its rivals, sold to somebody from across the other side of the world as far as we are concerned," said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's longtime congressional representative and a third-generation Washingtonian. "It might be called Washington, but it's not the same thing."
The paper's sale was such a closely held secret that it's not clear whether there were any potential local buyers. The Post reported that investment firm Allen & Co. met with about half a dozen suitors, but it did not name them.
Barbara Lang, president of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, praised the Grahams' deep personal investment in the community, but noted that the realities of business are unavoidable.
"The Grahams were so engaged in the District of Columbia and this region and really cared about this city," she said. "Having somebody local replace them would have been nice, but in the world of business, you have to take the best deal that you can find."
Mayor Vincent Gray said in a written statement that he was "honored to have worked with Don Graham and the Graham family," while also praising Bezos as "a pioneer and a visionary."
When Eugene Meyer bought the Post at a bankruptcy auction in 1933, he laid out his vision for a civic-minded paper. Philip Graham, Meyer's son-in-law who succeeded him as publisher, printed a series of articles in 1952 lamenting urban blight in the nation's capital. With the culmination of the series, Graham brought civic leaders together to form the Federal City Council — a group that continues today, seeking to bridge the gaps between the local government, the federal government and the private sector to improve the city. His son, Donald Graham, remains a trustee of the council.
Before he became publisher, Donald Graham worked for a year and a half as a D.C. police officer to become more familiar with the city and its residents. He is also the chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program.
His niece, Katharine Weymouth, is now publisher, and Bezos has asked her to continue in that role.
As its hometown daily slips out of local control, Washington is experiencing what many other American cities have undergone since newspaper chains began to develop and spread their reach in the 20th century. Only a handful of major newspapers are still owned by local families, including the Columbus Dispatch and the Toledo Blade and Bezos' hometown newspaper, the Seattle Times. The New York Times, still controlled by the Sulzberger family, last week said it was selling The Boston Globe to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry.
The Post will continue to be family-owned — just not by a local family.
Sally Quinn, a longtime Post writer, wife of former executive editor Ben Bradlee and a prominent Washington hostess, has long lamented the decline of the city's social and philanthropic scene, in which former Post publisher Katharine Graham was a major figure. But Quinn said securing the newspaper's future was more important than maintaining local ownership. She and her husband are encouraged by the sale to Bezos, she said.
"Local doesn't matter. What matters is that you've got someone with integrity who cares about the journalism," Quinn said. "Washington was a small town then, and in some ways it is now, but communications and the media have changed so much that nothing is local anymore."
Ted Leonsis, a former AOL executive who owns the Washington Wizards and Capitals, suggested in a blog post that Bezos may be motivated more by public service and philanthropy than by profit.
"You can put your name on a building or a hospital. You can fund scholarships. You can make a documentary film to catalyze change," Leonsis wrote. "And now you can buy a newspaper or print publication … to make a virtual charitable gift to help serve your community."
David Alpert, a former Google project manager and the founder of the urbanist blog Greater Greater Washington, said Bezos could show his commitment to the city by maintaining robust local coverage.
"I think the effect of the Post has been more in its ability to inform people. Certainly what the Graham family has done is important, but they're not leaving," Alpert said. "I don't think there's any reason that should mean that we lose a family of people who care about the region. Maybe we'll gain one."
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