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Andrew Ainsworth has won the right to copy and sell the trooper design he created for Star Wars so many years ago. Arguing that the costume he created was “functional” (functional prop, I guess) and not an artistic piece has won his appeal with British high courts. Also helping his argument is that the UK rights have lapsed after 15 years, so the law is allowing him to copy and sell the helmets, but only in the UK. However, his online business of creating copies has been found in violation of copyright law within those 15 years.

Still, it’s kind of cool that the armour is now in the public domain over there.

Via BoingBoing

Cars Poo

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Who can forget the first ten minutes of UP, where a kid’s movie emotionally punched you in the nutsack so hard you woke up at the talking dog scene?

Or how about the feeling of longing brought about when a little robot, alone for 700 years and surrounded by garbage, dreamed of just holding someone’s hand by clasping his own two together while watching Hello Dolly?

Who could forget the look of calm defeat that flashes across the faces of life long toy friends when they realize they’re going to die a fiery meltyplastic death, and with no rescue coming, one by one accepted their fate and stopped struggling?

Pixar has taken some big risks in the past. Literally they’ve reinvented movie making (arguably by re-hashing European film techniques with solid scripts – see Ratatouille) and created some incredibly beautiful, striking movie moments like the ones above. They boldly and successfully play with their audience using themes thought to be taboo in kids movies: death, loss, alienation, nostalgia, etc., and in the process have created the best American cinema in the last decade.

Cars 2, from what I am understanding from all the reviews, does nothing to help that last statement. When Pixar set out to make Toy Story 2, fanboys worried that they were selling out to the monster Hollywood cash machine, but were surprised when they got a solid, touching story that was just as good as the first – and then outdid themselves with a third movie. Pixar proved that you could continue a franchise without selling out.

However, I can glean not one thing from the reviews I’ve read, or from the trailers I’ve seen, that this movie is nothing but “oil=pee” and “muffler=fart” jokes.

This is why I’ll not see Cars 2 in the theartre. I don’t want to tarnish Pixar’s stellar reputation. Sadly, however, Cars 2 exists, like a steaming pile of cat puke, left carelessly from a loved one, outside your bedroom door. Eventually you’ll step in it.

Bah! I was in a horrid mood all morning until I saw this:

Dear Michael Bay

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Hi Michael Bay!

I see you sent along a letter to projectionists around the world in preparation for your latest 3D spectacle “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”. Wonderful! I’m glad to see your micromanaging is exceeding your limits. It’s always nice to have a goal.

I love how you’ve taken up the sword in the defense of 3D movies and that you urge your fans to see your movie in the “best possible theatre” they can. I’m hoping this is because with your superior directing and editing skills, you’ve managed to cram that extra frame of action, that one more line of patriotic rhetoric, that added misogynistic/homophobic/racist joke —in 3D!. And we shouldn’t miss one second!

Yesterday SharkBoy and i spent 10 minutes watching Transformers 2: Cock Flapping In Our Faces and thought how terrible it must have been to create such a movie of sheer actionness, utter excitemaplosion, pure adrenalinacokewhoreness, and then have to come down after all that production work. We wondered aloud at what you might do in your off time. Do you stitch puppies together mouth-to-anus and watch them roam your property? Do you dress girls up like Meghan Fox and make them work on your car engines while encouraging them to continue with their stellar acting abilities into such ground breaking movies as Jonas Hex? Whatever you do I’m glad you don’t sit still for long! I can’t wait for your Ouija Movie!!

Anyway, just wanted to say Hi and keep up the eye-bleedingly shitty work.