Should we be advertising this?

[Nervous Spy]

Could be worse, I hate to wonder what goes through a movie directors mind when they are required to show X close up shots of a product.

When shooting 'Fight Club', director David Fincher took pains to ensure that most of the products the studio required to be placed (Volkswagen cars, Apple computers and others) ended up destroyed or damaged in some way.

[Sortelli]

Could be worse, I hate to wonder what goes through a movie directors mind when they are required to show X close up shots of a product.

When shooting 'Fight Club', director David Fincher took pains to ensure that most of the products the studio required to be placed (Volkswagen cars, Apple computers and others) ended up destroyed or damaged in some way.

It's always nice when fantastically rich people stick it to the man.

[McDuffies]

heheh

[Warren]

Could be worse, I hate to wonder what goes through a movie directors mind when they are required to show X close up shots of a product.

When shooting 'Fight Club', director David Fincher took pains to ensure that most of the products the studio required to be placed (Volkswagen cars, Apple computers and others) ended up destroyed or damaged in some way.

It's always nice when fantastically rich people stick it to the man.

But... they ARE the man, right?

[Gildedtongue]

But... they ARE the man, right?

Yeah, it's a bit akin to Ed Norton kicking the living fecal matter out of himself.

[Nervous Spy]

But... they ARE the man, right?

Yeah, it's a bit akin to Ed Norton kicking the living fecal matter out of himself.

Well, you could call Fincher's move somewhat hypocritical, but a movie director is in a difficult position in that regard. While Fincher is doubtlessly a wealthy man, he is probably still far from being able to realize his projects without other people's money, and thus other people's meddling. And, less hypocritically Fincher withdrew from 'Mission Impossible III', allegedly, amongst other things, because of excessive product placement demands by General Motors and others.

[McDuffies]

Well, independency is more a thing of reputation. With two cult films behind him, Fincher is probably able to make films disregarding producer's requests. That's not really a matter of wether he personally has money, because he doesn't invest his personal money in films, and even if he did, that'd be a tiny part of sum needed. Probucing a Hollywood film takes money that only companies have, not individuals.

[Crazy Chris]

Can we really be at fault for people who are lazy enough to go for this?

[Jackhass]

Well, if you're looking for high moral value don't look to banner ads. This is no more or less evil than any of the other ads that run on Comicgen trying to sucker you with little games or scams.

[Dr Legostar]

Like we lecturers can't tell. I always find it funny when students try this sort of thing.

- Joel Fagin

i love when people think they can get away with plagiarizing in a paper that will be read by someone who has far more knowledge of the field.

[Joel Fagin]

Like we lecturers can't tell. I always find it funny when students try this sort of thing.

i love when people think they can get away with plagiarizing in a paper that will be read by someone who has far more knowledge of the field.

Bah. They're not even that smart. They copy verbatim from the Microsoft website for an assignment on Vista. You get detailed in depth analysis like "Vistas new security features make your computer safer than ever!"

Note the "your". Makes it easy to tell it's advertising.

- Joel Fagin

[Keffria]

'Mission Impossible III'

Whoa, there was a third one...?

Many courses at my uni require students to submit their work to this site called "Turnitin", mostly in the social sciences. The profs in the English department seem be better able to pick out bullshit on their own. I freak out when I don't think I've cited a source properly; it's a really serious offense.

As for the mp3 thing, and internet downloads in general, I just can't seem to get it through my head that it's illegal and I shouldn't be doing it.

[Dr Legostar]

Like we lecturers can't tell. I always find it funny when students try this sort of thing.

i love when people think they can get away with plagiarizing in a paper that will be read by someone who has far more knowledge of the field.

Bah. They're not even that smart. They copy verbatim from the Microsoft website for an assignment on Vista. You get detailed in depth analysis like "Vistas new security features make your computer safer than ever!"

Note the "your". Makes it easy to tell it's advertising.

- Joel Fagin

bwahahahahahaaha! that's fantastic!

[Killbert-Robby]

Erm, a website that helps college students download essays?

Maybe it's just that I recently read an article on my campus newspaper about this sort of cheating being on the rise, but, it kinda makes me uneasy that this is advertised.

meh, I'm sure it's just me being paranoid.

Thanks, I was working on a really hard poetry analysis when I came across this thread