you're right...it is crap. full of glitches and terrible level design...75% of the levels after 13 seems designed to be obnoxious and require a few lucky bounces to complete. and yet I keep playing it...hmmmmmm (hmmmmm)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DsToYffGBY
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204624204577177184275959856-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwMjEyNDIyWj.html
― markers, Monday, 23 January 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
stop fucking constantly freezing on me you cunt and just work properly
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
that black square and ticking cursor UGHHHHH
my blackberry keeps making noises unbidden - it's like it's tuning in to some radio or something? i didn't tell it to do this, no relevant application seems to be running, i don't even know HOW to make it do it
it first happened the night of the boston bombing - it played a full news report for NO REASON at all and completely freaked me out. now it seems to be picking up some sort of broadcast from the french open - if i knew how to make this happen i would have done it myself, but now i am concerned with WHY and HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 31 May 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
Pull the battery?
― Jeff, Friday, 31 May 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah that'll probably work but i want to know why and i want it to NOT DO IT. i genuinely think all technology is a) not controlled by me in any way b) out to get me
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 31 May 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Any obvious reason why my Blackberry (I know, I know) has suddenly stopped receiving emails? And any obvious fixes, aside from "switch off for five minutes"?
― djh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
Hmm. It works if I connect to Wifi.
― djh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
I was hoping this thread was bumped because someone bought a key one
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
Saw a review of BlackBerry yesterday by Matt Zoller Seitz, who I like as a TV writer. Didn't read it, but I've seen the film now and will. I know he liked it--surprised.
I found the three principles so hard to take--one yells and scowls nonstop; one is a cartoon geek; the David Foster Wallace guy wears the same dopey expression the entire film--I wanted out after about half an hour. (When Saul Rubinek appears, he puts those three actors to shame just by acting human-like. Rich Sommer--Mad Men's Harry Crane!--does all right too.) The soundtrack is much better than Air's, but to little effect. (Didn't get "Waterloo Sunset" at the end for a few seconds, but then, duh, I figured it out.)
I've never owned a cell phone, but I associate the BlackBerry with Obama in 2008, so having everything falling apart at that exact moment (a bit earlier even) was somewhat confusing.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 May 2023 22:29 (eleven months ago) link
It was all right enough as a film, a watchable trifle but the leads are indeed one-note aside from Beruchel. I gotta give credit to makeup/costumes departments though in that I didn't recognize either Cary Elwes or Michael Ironside, and their names are right there in the credits.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:42 (eleven months ago) link
I'm sure it's not my thing, but Glenn Howerton screaming is, so I'll still give it a watch
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:54 (eleven months ago) link
He does scream with proper business asshole verve.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:08 (eleven months ago) link
Anyway, nice enough interview with Matt Johnson:
https://defector.com/blackberry-director-matt-johnson-is-not-wearing-an-outfit
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:15 (eleven months ago) link
I recognized Cary Elwes, but needed a reminder in the credits of his name. Didn't recognize Michael Ironside at all...my strongest association with him is Scanners, 40 years ago.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 May 2023 03:55 (eleven months ago) link
I completely missed out on Blackberries. They definitely had a pop-culture moment in the mid-2000s, when someone like Paris Hilton would be widely known for using hers. Some called them crackberries because they were apparently so addictive. But what features did they have that garnered that much attention? Was it just their web-browsing and texting capabilities? Throughout their heyday, I was on old Nokia bricks and flip phones. When I graduated from those, smartphones had already been a thing for several years.
― peace, man, Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:47 (eleven months ago) link
According to the movie, phone + web + texting was revolutionary. But, as Paris Hilton might say, I am so not the person to answer that.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:54 (eleven months ago) link
It was the keyboard, manAnd emailAnd push notifications
― calstars, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:16 (eleven months ago) link