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Post by neuronomad on Jun 26, 2005 3:18:22 GMT
Mr. (and I use that title very, very loosely) Hines.... Please check your calendar it is the 25th, and now almost the 26th. Once again you are (and most likely will) fail to deliver.
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jun 26, 2005 9:39:16 GMT
Quelle bleeding surprise...
Meanwhile, I'm damned glad I didn't participate in this farrago - 'give me all your contact details' my arse - considering that over on another board, where I posted some images using the URLs of images posted by someone else (if you see what I mean), I received this morning a PM from Susan Goforth - yes, THE Susan Goforth! - threatening me with legal action if I didn't withdraw them! Of course, she'd also got at the other person and all the images had come down anyway (incuding the ones I'd linked to).
Just shows what Pendragon are like...
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Post by Rob on Jun 26, 2005 11:08:25 GMT
I have received War of the Worlds Online's section of the Q+A back and am now preparing them to be put online later today.
I'm unsticking this thread
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Post by David Faltskog on Jun 26, 2005 12:07:56 GMT
Great reply Mc wellsian@hotmail.co.uk, really enjoyed reading it...Well while it was on here of course. Dakota Fanning.
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Post by Rob on Jun 26, 2005 17:26:03 GMT
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Jun 26, 2005 19:04:37 GMT
Mmm! So that's it, that's his answers. I'm trying to find a suitable word to sum up how I feel.................Stunned might be the one!
All this talk of stalkers etc - how bloody bizarre! Glad I didn't send my details now.
I'll say one thing though. What he says about Asylum is VERY interesting. I've had my suspicions about that particular movie for a while now. I've got a few suspicions about how Pendragon got the go ahead to make this film too.
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Post by recumbentrider on Jun 26, 2005 19:21:27 GMT
I can't seem to get this link to work. Is it still 'under construction'? I did find the Q & A on the 'eveofthewar.com' site. I found his description of the look of the film as 'a classic age Hollywood look combined with a newsreel feel' absolutely ludicrous. I can think of no 'classic Hollywood' movies that looked as bad as his War of the Worlds film. Then he went on to say 'sort of like the Wizard of Oz meets the World at War'. I am frankly amazed this man has the nerve to compare his film with either of these truly magnificent, classic productions.
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Post by dudalb on Jun 26, 2005 20:08:33 GMT
For Independent producers to rent office space from the Major Studios, who often have a surplus of office space in their building, is SOP in Hollywood proper (as in a suburb of LA), and proves nothing. Hines' conspiracy theories are truly bizarre.
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Jun 26, 2005 20:18:24 GMT
One thing which puzzles me quite a bit is when he says that one stalker is connected to Jeff Wayne and another is a producer for Dreamworks. How does he know that the documentation which allegedly outed this stalker isn't fake? Talk about weird.
Does he mean The stalker is working for Jeff Wayne - cos if he does - that's slander isn't it?
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Jun 26, 2005 20:47:35 GMT
There certainly are some strange statements in there and a fair amount of vague, unsubstantiated finger pointing. I can't say I blame him for being bitter in some respects but it all seems rather odd to me. Personally, I don't think the adding up of supposed oddities in other studio's movies, in particular the comments on Asylum's set up, makes him look like any less of a conspiracy geek than the people he rails against elsewhere. Maybe someone should've asked him if the slating of his film is actually a heinous plot by the Illuminati. From what he just wrote, I'm sure he could come up with something.
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Jun 26, 2005 21:41:21 GMT
I really am beginning to wonder [ well I've wondered for a while really ] if this whole thing has been set up by Paramount for some reason or other. I mean surely no film director in their right mind would fling accusations about like that. He could be sued.
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 26, 2005 22:07:34 GMT
For what it's worth, I've always thought the Assylum project had some dodgy elements. I mean, they change their name to almost exactly the same name as the Pendragon movie just before its release. Then, their first poster uses a logo that is practically taken directly off of the Pendgraon site, same color, same font, etc. If I were Hines, I'd probably think they were trying to copycat me too. Then he finds out that they have an office on the Paramount lot? I don't know if that is really true, but it sure does seem like a bunch of bizarre coincidences, especially if Paramount has been threatening Pendragon all along.
Don't know if I believe him or not, but I can certainly see why HE believes it.
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Jun 26, 2005 22:29:12 GMT
Yes I don't think anyone knows what to believe. I certainly find the Asylum thing suspicious. Big corporations use all sorts of dodgy tactics to undercut, undermine or in some cases smear rivals. As for Pendragon well they just get more and more bizarre.
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Post by TOMAHAWK on Jun 26, 2005 22:51:52 GMT
Hmm I would have loved to see the questions that he did n't want to post a response to .... He seems rather proud of the whole thing ..which is a bit sickening really.....
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Jun 26, 2005 23:23:47 GMT
Or, looking at it another way, perhaps the main bugbear TH has is that the Asylum's movie turned out to be good. End of story. He certainly has succeeded in what appears to be his goal. To point fingers and start witch hunts against other Movie studios with unsubstantiated and impossible to prove comments. How responsible of you, Tim. Btw.. that is MY hypothesis, not this site's. I do not speak for Wotwonline on this. At all.
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Post by quaderni on Jun 26, 2005 23:28:22 GMT
I really am beginning to wonder [ well I've wondered for a while really ] if this whole thing has been set up by Paramount for some reason or other. I mean surely no film director in their right mind would fling accusations about like that. He could be sued. Well, libel laws in the US are quite different from those in the UK. In the US, it's darned hard to sue for libel as long as whatever you say can be construed as 'opinion'. Which explains, in the US, the dodgy nature of our press and what often passes as 'journalism' or political commentary.
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Post by nervouspete on Jun 26, 2005 23:39:34 GMT
Re: libel
"If that's justice then I'm a banana!" (etc)
Reference quote anyone? Anyone?
Pete
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jun 26, 2005 23:39:37 GMT
How ironic Timbo - you get your girlfriend to threaten me with legal action, yet immediately hoist yourself by your own petard with your characteristically inept attempt at self-justifiication. See you in court, bozo.
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Post by dudalb on Jun 27, 2005 2:34:11 GMT
"I mean surely no film director in their right mind would fling accusations about like that. He could be sued. " You see crap like what Hines is saying on the Internet all the time. Just visit any Conspriacy theory website in which public figures are accused of being part of vast evil conpriacy much worse then anything that Hines is accusing Paramount of being involved in.It is not libelous under US law, where is it next to impossible to win a libel case in court. Asylum just saw a chance to make a quickie film in hopes of cashing in on the Spielberg film. I think some people are letting their dislike of the SPielberg project to overcome their good sense.
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Jun 27, 2005 4:19:24 GMT
He certainly is an interesting character is Tim Hines. I would have thought he'd have to have ironclad proof to his various claims about Asylum and Jeff Wayne before taking shots across their bow, but as other members have said the US laws and freedom of the press are quite different. The more I read about him the more I can't decide if he is a crafty spin-doctor or just plain crazy.
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