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- gaius_baltar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ere I Am JH
- oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"umm no ftw means for the win, which for the record is a dumb thing to say"
It's a racing reference.
When betting on a horse race, you can bet "for the win", "to place", "to show".
Each has different odds and you'd better know the difference when placing a bet.
"for the win" means coming in first place
"to place" means coming in first OR second place
"to show" means coming in the top three.
So when someone says x264 FTW, they are implying that they are betting on a sure thing, otherwise, they'd bet to place or show.
Now you know. - capajc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Unfortunately, Terry Gilliam doesn't own his movies. The studios do. So he doesn't really get a vote.
Pity. The guy's made some true gems. - slamm6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms."
Well, at least there's no, dare I say it, Spam (ooh, I said it). - MisterNipples, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Mom! Dad! It's the MPAA! Don't touch it!"
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BOOM - Meshyf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg just for his last statement.
My teacher downloaded a copy of "Anderson Hill" or something like that off a torrent and the quality was grainy and crappy and the whole class had to sit through it anyway. What a pain in the ass when the 5 dollar VHS copy would have looked better and saved time. - modian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mom! Dad! It's the MPAA! Don't touch it!
- kram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Way to go, Terry! More creators should follow this guys example. Everyone go BUY Brazil. Best.Movie.Ever
- TheRappingShoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Terry is a genius. Many of his films have suffered due to lack of studio interest. Although, admittedly, he's quite capable of stuffing up a film in his own way! But a Gilliamised movie is always better than a Hollywoodised movie.
And 'Brazil' = great film :hail: etc
Pirate stuff fine, but if you truly love something then buy it. I do.
A 'Good Omens' film would be great. If it was good then I could enthuse about it, and if it was bad then I'd have even more fun bitching about it! ;)
Yes, I dare say Gilliam is rich, but he also has principles. There are many people far richer than him who will happily keep in line with the movie studios in order to get *even richer*. I like him. Sure he aint no saint, but then no-one is. Ultimately, he's a cynical anti-authoritarian SOB and I like that character trait. If only more people were like that. - msergeant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FTW == For The Win
- EdwinBubble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
Terry Gilliam is a god amongst directors. 95% of Hollywood couldn't be as good as him on his worst day if they tried.
That being said I never really liked the Fisher King, but everything else rocks (for me). - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"nice try FTW = What the *****"
ummm.... no, pretty sure it's "For The Win."
Unless you'd rather say "***** the What?!" - jmullman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gilliam as been a pretty hate machine against most of Hollywood for a while. If anyone out there has the Fear and Loathing DVD set, you should really watch the documentary on how the Screenwriter's Guild nearly drove TG further over the brink. All in all, I'd say he's one of the best directors out there. And I still love his animations.
Oh, and just so I'll have said something OT: bring me... THE COMFY CHAIR! - mutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0in a few months
"P2P-user getting sued by monty python cause he distributed lousy rips" - oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"XVID also has 2 pass VBR..."
So does H.264. In fact, H.264 is inherently VBR. And one pass is never used unless you are writing direct to disc.
"And DVDR's are not bad quality. There must be something wrong with your DVDR/eyes/monitor. What about those 1-1 copies?"
DVD's are encoded in MPEG2. If you do a 1-1 copy, you end up with MPEG2 video. There's nothing wrong with that but if, instead of 4-6 Mbps you could transcode to 1-1.5 Mbps that would mean a movie with the same quality stored in 1/4 of the space.
Dual Layer DVD's transrated to fit on a DVD-R are lower quality than the original. That's because MPEG-2 is nowhere near as bit efficient as MPEG4 (any variant). That's what programs like DVD Shrink do.
Instead of transrating MPEG-2, if you transcoded to XVID or H.264 you could keep the quality AND still fit on a DVD-R. That's what programs like Nero Recode do. Nero creates MPEG4 or AVC (H.264) versions that maintain quality but take up less space. It takes longer than a transrate but it's doing a lot more as well.
A bonus is that if you use H.264, you might be able to fit 2 or 3 movies on that DVD-R. All at the original movie quality. - freonchill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Have some respect for what you're pirating!"
thats a really open ended comment!
just because he says that he has no sorrow for studios losing money over people pirating their movies, doesnt mean that he condones it.
in the same regard, the above quote has nothing to do with the condoning of piracy, its saying (among other things) could be like the topic regarding this on digg "encoding", or perhaps, pay who really makes it happen, not the capitalist pigs who do "acceptable risk analysis" on a product/service, in this case: the movie...
i find it entirely ironic that the movie studios (if they even cared about their medium at all) would FUND projects such as theatre education for students, reducing the cost of theatre tickets, etc - so that their MEDIUM is advanced in the mind of the consumer.
but they are just driven by the bottom line: money!
they could care less about the content of their service/product/etc and the consumer who makes their back pocket bigger. - julzmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.tidelandthemovie.com/
His new movie should be out soon. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Terry Gilliam rocks. I'm wondering, though, if "Tidelands" will compensate for the pedestrian "Brothers Grimm", or if indeed it will ever be released, judging from the snarky and impenetrable reviews of it I've seen.
- Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.
"When you look at one of their accounting sheets you realise you're never going to see a penny, so if someone wants to rip them off that's fine with me.
"If you're going to pirate, though, make sure the quality's good. Have some respect for what you're pirating!"
Arrgh! Ahoy and all that gibberish!
I don't want to go into accountancy, I wish to be... a lion tamer... or in this case, a pirate. - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll have to go out and buy a copy of Brazil.
- dogbyte_13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We are the Knights who say NEE!!!
- sometemple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The rich, the struggling, and all the rest... Do you obviously believe that the middle crowd you speak of suffer that much? If they're not in the struggling category, seems to me like I can sleep just fine.
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^anything
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Could someone please tell me what the hell "FTW" means? I've never been able to gain onything from context.
- NickW0817, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Unfortunately, Terry Gilliam doesn't own his movies. The studios do. So he doesn't really get a vote.
Pity. The guy's made some true gems."
*****. - eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Argh! the Crimson Permanent Asurance awaits yee lubbers.
- cool4u2view, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0XviD is beautiful if done right and doesn't take nearly the encoding time as x264. I wish they would make a AMD x64 build of it (is there one?)...
...and btw DVDRs suck the quality is only ok (better than kvcd), but why not encode to xvid to save bandwidth. mpeg4 dvd players are like $60. Another thing is why do people keep encoding and releasing as kvcd. I mean give me a break kvcd is the most horrible thing on earth. Like I said mpeg4 dvd players are cheap and widely available, there is no excuse... /rant - Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*downloading movies with pride*
- beandog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's not surprising really. The MPAA naturally doesnt speak for all directors, just as some bands prefer P2P for their music too.
- Dragular, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0After reading Good Omens, I will gladly donate whatever money I can to see that a movie is made based on it, definately.
- sych0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0stick it to the man!
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Terry Gilliam = teh brilliant. His animations, albeit some of the most bizarre stuff ever put on film, are terriffic. You see a 2 second clip of any of them and immediately you know its Gilliam and Python.
"Mom, Dad, there's a dead executive on the landing?"
"Whats his company?"
"The RIAA"
"How'd you know that?"
"Tattooed on the back of the neck..." - cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Terry Gilliam is my hero.
- capajc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If Terry's rich, he not rich enough. Otherwise we'd all have special edition DVDs of his Don Quixote. *****, that looked good. That shot of those 3 fat guys running towards the camera in slow motion...I'd pay $9 for that alone.
- TiEsQue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No, he says that consumers pirating movies is theft...he just doesn't care if people rip off the studios. Read his quote.
- Zer01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0FTW -- I always thought it meant ***** the World. At least that's what it used to mean.
- jewdass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"For the Win" FTW.
- bingbing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Want to know why he didn't see a penny?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"***** the world for all it's woth every inch of planet earth"
-Pantera
R.I.P. Darrel - skooma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0both ***** The world and For the win are valid.
However For the win is the newest incarnation
i knew a cholo who had FTW tattooed on his earlobes, and i'm pretty godamned sure it didn't mean For the win. - oepapel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"XviD is beautiful if done right and doesn't take nearly the encoding time as x264"
Ah, but you only encode once. x264 takes a little more time but it will outperform all MPEG4-ASP variants (XVID, DIVX, etc) all else being equal.
It's true that XviD/DivX is more prolific on this year's players but only because of the extra processing power needed. Once the BluRay and HD-DVD players are out, x264 will be dominant on just about every device. x264 is just slightly ahead of it's time. I can understand people choosing DivX for today but it's clock is ticking. - tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Could someone please tell me what the hell "FTW" means? I've never been able to gain onything from context." - Eggo
Here is the BEST site for wondering what is being said... http://www.noslang.com/
Just type or copy/paste the Fraze into the site, and it will tell you what it really is!
Oh and it is WTF Get the letter order right. ;) - PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0tavisjohn said "Just type or copy/paste the Fraze into the site, and it will tell you what it really is!"
I can't believe you said "Fraze"...ugh ¬_¬ - Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"As with another of his mooted projects - an adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel, Good Omens - the problem lies in raising enough money to do it justice. "
Terry Gilliam directing Good Omens?
Someone send him a metric ***** of money, right now! As long as it can be modernised sufficiently, that would just kick ass.
And now I have to read Good Omens again, damn you digg. - slack0re, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0definite digg
- Luxowell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good Omens would ROCK as a movie, no doubt about it...
But what I'm waiting for is for someone to let him do Watchmen... as a 10 part miniseries on HBO.
Its the only way it could be done justice. It needs to be that long, and it needs GIlliam as a director. He's talked about doing it for a while, but I think I read one interview where he broke down and said "it may just be too ambitious of a movie to be made". - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought FTW = "***** the World"
*shrugs* - saddad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Ah, but you only encode once. x264 takes a little more time but it will outperform all MPEG4-ASP variants (XVID, DIVX, etc) all else being equal."
XVID also has 2 pass VBR...
And DVDR's are not bad quality. There must be something wrong with your DVDR/eyes/monitor. What about those 1-1 copies? - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"umm no ftw means for the win, which for the record is a dumb thing to say."
You mean.... FTR? ;) - Dolemite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I see Gilliam is still bitter about Hollywood messing up Brazil all those years ago.
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